i had a hard freeze, and then the siren..

[shawshank62]

For the first time....really ever thta i can remember, my computer went into a hard freeze. So i press the restart, and then the siren starts going EEE-OOOO-EEEE-OOOO so i quick hurry and cut the p/s and then i wait a few seconds and restart and it works fine.

2600xp "barton"
1gb geil
ti4200 128mb (295/545)
2 80 gb hd's


it was really weird......any idea what it could have been?

[stroyal]

my nf7-s did that on start up when it was new, before I updated the BIOS.
In my case it was the hardware monitor warning because of misidentifying my Barton 2500+

[OuTpaTienT]

Only thing I can think of that would be an actual siren noise would be some kind of temperature sensor/alarm. Checked your temps lately?

[shawshank62]

running at 35.5C (according to speedfan) and fan is spinning around 5,600-5,900

i have the alarm set to go off at 60C and shut down at around the same temp also

[Dj-Icer]

Mine computer goes beeping because of the display problem. Then I had to clean the copper grill and it works fine after that.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Happened to me. Thought a French ambulance was in the house.

Turned out the processor fan was full of lint and dust.

Cleaned it out and no more noise.

Bill

[shawshank62]

Thought a French ambulance was in the house.

it has probably been about a month since i last cleaned, ill get on that tomorrow. thx for the respones.

shwshank