Dratted Beep Boop sound

I am a newbie at this build your own PC thing, and would appreciate advice from you experts. I bought an ANTEC Sonata case and I believe that the power supply it comes with is rated 380 watts. I installed a K7N2G-IL board, with an AMD Athlon XP2500 processor, 333 FSB, Barton Core, It has 512 MB, DDR Ultra memory, 400 Mhz single channel for now. Installed a single CDRW/DVD Combo drive, and am just using the onboard sound and video for now. Much to my delight when I booted it up everything came on and seems to work great. I will add to video and sound cards and memory later, that's part of the fun of build your own. Here's the problem: The periodic beep/ boop sound from the PC speaker is driving me nuts. The BIOS is Phoenix Award version 3.5. After reading some of you FAQ's I have gone in and turned off (disabled ) the warning Beep in the BIOS. It reports the CPU temp as 37 deg. C; System Temp as 35 deg. C; voltages seem resonable at: +12 V = 11.67; - 12 V = - 11.95; + 5 V = 4.94; and - 5 V = -4.94. I could not find a seperate place in the BIOS to turn off what is referred to as "case intrusion?". What can I do to stop the infernal beeps, short of disconnecting the case speaker?
I double checked after reboot, and the warning beep option remained disabled. Any and all helpful hints are appreciated.
BobB

Thanks for your responses,
I wouldn't call it a chirp, it's a solid single frequency tone for several seconds, followed by a second different solid frequency for several seconds. The two tones do not repeat, and will not be heard for maybe 15 or 20 minutes.
Come to think of it, I have not heard the tones while I was in the BIOS, or when booting, only while in windows. But they are definatlely coming from the PC speaker, and not fromthe windows speakers at the other end of the desk.
The Antec case has two keyed latches, but I don't remember seeing any wires going to them. I think they are stricktly mechanical. When I get home from work tonight I'll read throuugh the manual to see if I can find mention of intrusion detection, but I don't remember seeing it when I was putting things together.
Thanks again.
BobB

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1) Note that I had to use single spaces to indent - everything else blew the posting limit(2).
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