Final Cut Express REALLY loud beeping noise?

i've been using Final Cut Express for a few months now,
i have just started to edit a new video and i was listening back the music to see if it was mixed right, then a REALLY LOUD beep started. my macbook was on volume 2 out of 16 and it sounded as tho i had my laptop of full! or louder :/
what is this?
the first time i played the music, it didn't happen, but the second time it did? - it also did the same thing the other day!
-it isn't because i haven't rendered my music, because all my music and video is rendered. the noise is 100% louder than the 'unrendered' beeping

Beeping is usually an artifact of using iMovie video in FCE.
What exactly are your sequence settings & clip properties? (Frame size, vid rate & compressor).
And are you really using Final Cut Express on a Lion (10.7.3) machine?

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