Strange Alert Sound

For a couple of days now I have had the following problem: Every 30 seconds or so, the system gives off a strange alert sound, one day it's something like a soft "CLONK", the next day it sound like "PHEW" and then back to "CLONK" etc. (the 2 sounds are different from the built-in sound effects).
I suspect that it has something to do with my internet connection, but all the cables are perfectly connected and all programs (Safari, E-Mail etc. ) work normally.
What could this be?
Thanks for any help!

Hello
I found the culprit !
As I had mentioned, the alerts were NO APPLE sounds. They came from my MS Entourage, where I had recently clicked the "sound when no message" box. So every minute or so, when Entourage checked if I had new E-mail messages and there were none, I got this CLONK or PEW sound !
Well, thanks anyway for your tips - they are always useful one way or the other!

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