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Long Beep While on windows but no error message. What does it mean?

#1 CalusBlade

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 05:40 PM

I'm on firefox. I'm just on facebook and gmail. This long beep happens but no error message. I notice that one of my cooling pads fan turned off. . .could this be the reason for the beep? (there are 3 fans on the cooling pad, only 1 turned off)

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 05:42 PM

How is the computer running?Is this the only problem??

#3 CalusBlade

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 05:50 PM

computer runs fine aside form AVG update slowing me down a little. The beeping is rare but this isn't the first time it happen.

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 06:08 PM

I would uninstall avg if it were my machine and get avast or mse
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials
http://www.avg.com/us-en/utilities

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 07:10 PM

What's a cooling pad?

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 07:29 PM

Laptop cooling pad that a laptop sits on to increase airflow. Non specific example below:
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Posted 04 November 2011 - 07:38 PM

Some/all systems will have an alarm installed for detected overheating.

The nature of the alarm...I would expect to vary but my experience is that the control for such is among the BIOS/CMOS settings.

You might check your motherboard/user manual.

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