Occasional soft beeps

After installing a new Maxtor 80Gb hard drive in my iMac DV400, and reinstalling OSX 10.3.9, I have been getting soft occasional soft 'beeps' from the computer.
Just occasional, but they can happen right from the moment it starts to boot, and carry on for an hour or so. They sound a little like a quiet version of a smoke alarm in need of a new battery!
The sound doesn't appear to be coming from the speakers, as I have turned all sound off!
Anyone any ideas why it is doing this? And how I can stop it!
Cheers!

'Sounds like it might be a chirp from the drive. Some of them make odd noises waking from sleep, or on spin-up or spin-down, or read/write activity. These fanless iMacs are so quiet, that peeps that would normally not be heard show up quite well.
David

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