"BOOP!" Noise Scaring Me ):

Okay,
So all of a sudden, my iMac is making this really loud BOOP noise ever few minutes. Its starting to worry me a bit because its not a sound I've heard before on the OS anywhere. Its using the internal speakers because my optical AV receiver broke down a few days ago, so it cant be shotty speaker connections. And from my experience, the sound has been working fine for the past year with the internal speakers.
In addition to the BOOP, it makes a suction cup popping noise once in a while, and I'm not kidding, it sounds exactly like a suction cup.
Is my computer having an early onset of midlife crisis and wanting to be different than before, or what?.................
BYP

Neoblackout wrote:
Okay,
So all of a sudden, my iMac is making this really loud BOOP noise ever few minutes. Its starting to worry me a bit because its not a sound I've heard before on the OS anywhere. Its using the internal speakers because my optical AV receiver broke down a few days ago, so it cant be shotty speaker connections. And from my experience, the sound has been working fine for the past year with the internal speakers.
In addition to the BOOP, it makes a suction cup popping noise once in a while, and I'm not kidding, it sounds exactly like a suction cup.
Is my computer having an early onset of midlife crisis and wanting to be different than before, or what?.................
BYP
The suction cup noise is a system sound, typically heard when changing the volume using the keyboard. I envision it as SquidWard walking.
Go into System Preferences->Sound and Sound Effects.
Click the various sounds and I am sure you will find the Boop! sound.
It might be Funk or Basso
The other question is what is causing the system alert sound to happen on its own?
For that you should open your console log and see what might be happening - an error, or something.
Also the Activity Monitor is helpful when tracing down these things.

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