Beep....Beep....Beep goes my 2x2Ghz G5

Ok, it's dead quiet in here and i noticed a very faint beeping sound in my office. After poking around i realized it's eminating from my G5 tower?! Is this normal? I hope and pray it's an "all systems go" beep and not a "I got ****, now where's the fan?" beep!!?? Someone please enlighten me. I've been a mac user for about 20 years and i've never had a machine sit there and beep...

The beeping is caused by a slight design flaw in a coil in all the PowerMac G5 power supplies except the Quad supposedly. (it's newer and more powerful)
Apple doesn't think it's all that much of a big deal, since normally most any computer noise is drowned out by the fans. Since the PowerMac was designed to have quiet fans, these other noises all a sudden get our attention.
So with that in mind, you might want to c boot from the Tiger install disk and install the Developers Tools. In your System Pref's will be a new pane called "Processor" which, provided you keep a cool room (-75ºF) as you should anyway for a lot of expensive electronic equipment, turn off "nap mode" will eliminate the beeping sound.
You'll have to reset it every-time you boot, there is a script around somewhere that will automatically turn it off on a reboot for you.
That's about it.
Let me take this opportunity to remind you how important it is to clone your boot drive to a external drive and keep it disconnected for emergency repair, hold option boot, recovery etc.
It's a clone and it will save your bacon if your hard drive suddenly fails one morning. Your up within a boot.
One can learn how to clone over at Carbon Copy Cloner forums, they recieve only donations for their software and I recieve nothing.

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KT3 random low/high beeps - HELP!

Hello,
Problem: I get a low then a high beep at random times while the computer is turned on and otherwise running fine. It is from the PC Speaker and just does a low beep followed by a higher pitched beep. The whole process is rather annoying. I removed the cases PC Speaker to try and get it to stop forgetting that most new motherboards have a speaker built on and the sound is emitting from tha place.
Specs:
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512mb Samsung DDR 333 ram
ATI Radeon 8500LE
Dual fanned 420watt powersupply (generic)
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Originally posted by ScArE2100
Hello,
Problem: I get a low then a high beep at random times while the computer is turned on and otherwise running fine. It is from the PC Speaker and just does a low beep followed by a higher pitched beep. The whole process is rather annoying. I removed the cases PC Speaker to try and get it to stop forgetting that most new motherboards have a speaker built on and the sound is emitting from tha place.
This is likely the Hard drive. If your drives and board (all news ones do) support S.M.A.R.T. then the system will beep at you to tell you the drive is having issues. You can disable SMART (stands for something monitoring) and if the beeping goes away then it's definatly that. Look closely at the POST boot screen (may need to hit pause) and look for info about SMART (mine says "drive supports it and it's enabled" I imagine yours says "error or something or rather") Also there are hard drive diags for all makes of drives (look at http://www.bootdisk.com for some links to HDD mfu's diags) that can tell you the error codes.
--Saul

H61M-P21 B3 Constant Beeping, Won't POST

So basically when I start my computer, I get a constant error beeping going, with a couple short beeps at the very start, and then back to just the constant beeping. I can see a little flashing underscore on the top left of my screen, and it switches between the numbers 98 and 99 on the bottom right. After about 20 seconds, I get even more beeps thrown into the already constant beeping for a second, and then they stop and it goes back to continuous beeping. I then also get 92, A2, A3, and A4 errors on the bottom right. It doesn't POST. It will just sit there constantly beeping with a A3 at the bottom right.
I should also add that the power is always on whenever power is plugged in. Not sure why this is happening either. The only way to shut the motherboard all the way off is to unplug the power cord or turn off the PSU.
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I previously had a ASRock board that wouldn't detect my video card, or any others I had here to try, so I bought this one. With the ASRock board, I could boot to Windows just fine with onboard video, so I think everything is working fine.
Things I have tried:
Resetting CMOS
Trying each stick of RAM separately
Using onboard GPU (same exact errors)
Trying different monitors
I'm out of ideas, and I'm not even sure if I can take the board back. Any help is greatly appreciated!

It has completed POST when you get to the A3 code. AA is the one that is shown once in the OS. Those aren't errors, just the normal progression codes thru the POST process.
A3 it's now looking for the OS. You can't migrate the OS from another system & expect it to work in the new one. Also, did you install the OS in AHCI? Then you must have the SATA controller set to AHCI & not in IDE mode.
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Posible p4n diamond heat problem and other beep question

Hi was using my p4n diamond for about 2h 30min and it all of a sudden just cuts out with no warning.
im unsure if its heat related thought the constant 55C is not as good temp as i should probably have but it stays stable there.
Also when i recently installed msi core it said i was very close to the voltages it had in the display just to hope to rule out power problems.
i have the cases 120mm exaust fan in the back an 80mm input fan in thefront and then the cpu fan that came with my pentium d 830 .
if its heat related should i get another 80mm fan as an exaust or an 80 mm input fan. i have one more spot on the door of the case.
----other beep question--
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regarding your question about target temperature. my board isn't exactly the same as yours, but it's close.
you are right that you can lower the target temp and it will tend to cool the cpu because the fan runs faster at a lower temperature. the way i set up mine was to DISABLE the target temp and that gives the fan full voltage at all temps. that way, the fan rpm will bottom out at 2250rpm (instead of 1100rpm up to the target temp) or so even at lower temps.
also keep in mind that your cpu temp in the bios disply should be a few degrees HIGHER than the temp in "idle windows".
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Oh dear lord, i bought a new board and now im having some stupid beeps going off every 3sec in the BIOS, i updated to 1.8 bios and now its going every 1sec, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP, every time there is a beep the system hangs a bit, i pretty much cant do anything in BIOS and its getting on my nerves. What is causing this? I tried removing all the drives, my cpu fan is connected to molex not to the motherboard though. In windows they go away, a bit when loading windows logo and it hangs the windows logo too for a few times, then all leds go green, before im getting from top to bottom Green, Green, Green, Red, Green

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EDIT: Allright, the answer to this problem is, go to windows and do a restart from windows, go to BIOS and there is no more beeping. I did a save and exit and rewent to BIOS and still no beeping, then did the shutdown and power on to BIOS and no beeps. So, weird problem but an easy answer to fix it. I think its something to do with the motherboard booting for the first time, it just needed to go to windows and make a restart. Weeeeeiiiiird.
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As I don't feel like missing my computer again for a while, i thought I'd ask the collected wisdom on this forums if anyone has experienced a similar problem and, if that's the case, if they were perhaps able to find out what the exact cause of this behavior was?
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Ah bummer (and here I was hoping it could be easily solved) .
I'll still try a fresh system install in a few days time, to make absolutely sure it isn't software-related (against better judgement perhaps in the light of your findings, but at least I'll be able to tell support its definitely not an sw problem). If indeed the problem persists I guess there won't be any other choice than to contact support again (But since I can't afford the computer not to be available for the coming 2 months I guess I'll have to bear it for the time being, which in turns also means I won't be able to let you know if it got fixed until I'm able to bring her in).
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Cheers!

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Hey there
i have had my macbook for about 7 months now, and its been about 3 days that this is actually happepning, there is like a random sounds like a beep goes off my speaker which last about 1 second about every 20 minuits
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I have a 2004 HP Pavilion a600n, AMD processor with Window XP SP3 and 1 gb of ram. I have no viruses or spyware due to running McAfee, Malwarebytes, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, and Advanced System care.
My pc starts fine, but after about an hour, the screen goes black, and I get a series of steady beeps about a second long. There are no short, long beeps. Just steady short beeps and a black screen.
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I will run PC Doctor and clean the dust out of the fans, etc.
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If you have never done something like this before, maybe enlist a friend to help. I suggest you not remove the CPU heat sink if that chore is not a task done before, at least without a knowledgeable friend along.
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When the system goes into sleep mode it keeps making a beeping noise. The system is shut down by holding the button in

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Syamak,
You didn’t specify where the beeping noise is coming from.
If it’s coming through your speakers, you could try to update your audio drivers since it’s possible they’re incorrectly sending a signal to the speakers as the audio chipset enters standby.
If the noise is coming from the motherboard, you’ll need to take a closer look at your system’s configuration or contact the manufacturer.
I hope this helps.
Mike
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