The sounds your PC tower makes when you reboot or turn your PC on are not always noises you can simply ignore. Before your PC boots its operating system, the motherboard runs a suite of diagnostic ...

Three beeps that repeat after a pause and occur when you power on your computer indicate a problem with the system memory. Three beeps that play and then stop as the computer starts successfully mean ...

I get a continuous beep when running an old Pentium 200 MMX computer with Windows 95. It doesn't happen until after the computer and OS is up and working. And sometimes it doesn't happen at all. I ...

According to most reports, Apple's nine-fan design for the Power Macintosh G5 has made it noticeably quieter than some noisy Power Macintosh G4 MDD models. However, MacFixIt reader Craig Hein reports ...

The board I am using is an ASUS P5LVM with REALTek onboard sound. For some reason the PC beep just started causing a background scratchiness whenever it is turned on. I plugged/unplugged the wire from ...

Last week we reported on a strange beeping noise being generated by the dual 2 GHz Power Macintosh G5. Several readers have since corroborated the behavior, which appears to be normal - albeit ...