Ringing Bell Alert Sound/ Keeping iMac On

Oy, where to begin?
I am awaiting Apple repair for a possible new logic board/hard drive on my 9-month old iMac. Couldn't boot, didn't recognize its own HD, wouldn't boot from Installer Disc, finally got it to boot after 2 days of the unplugging trick. Constant flashing folder with question mark or flashing grey globe. I have had it on since Friday around noon - afraid to turn it off as I may not be able to turn it on again!
I've backed up sufficiently and am working on what I can while it's still alive. Now I'm getting an odd ringing bell alert - my bell warning going haywire is what it sounds like. I was finishing a project in iDVD and started Firefox up and it went off - is this a sign that I am overloading it with activity? I am also getting a flickering mouse when on the web.
My mac was freezing up on the web and in Mail, I was getting the beach ball, unable to copy and paste into Word without it quitting, (not enough memory, maybe)among other problems.
Can anyone enlighten me about the bell? And is it OK to keep the computer on indefinitely? It tends to freeze in sleep and screensaver (I've disabled both of those) but I am worried about it overheating and frying if I don't turn it off sometime soon. I have no other backup computer.

The system sounds are all aiff, AFAIK, so a search for .aiff should turn it up.
There are some sounds in the Developer package and FYI, any sounds you add, don't add them to the system library, but if you create a sounds folder in the
/Library directory they will be seen by the system without modifying the original library.
In Sound preferences, these additional sounds show up as "System Shared" and not Built-in.
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