Beeping Hard Drive

[WillRiker]

OK this is doing my head in now as I can't find any obvious answer to it, so figured I'd ask in here and see if any MTW boffins know the answer.

I got up about 6:30am this morning and Kelly was up and said that the hard drive of the desktop PC (Dell Dimension DM061 - Dual Core Processor - 2038MB RAM - Windows Vista Home Edition) was beeping like an alarm clock and it woke her up just before 5am.

She couldn't get it to stop so rebooted the computer and it stopped after the restart.

I've looked through system logs and stuff but can't see anything obvious.

My first thought was maybe a low battery alarm, but surely that would be a Windows system sound and not actually be coming from the tower itself? And if it were that it would do it again after the restart...which it isn't.

It's probably nothing serious, it's just doing my head in now as I don't know what it was and why it was doing it.

[Maximal]

it could be a hard drive alarm meaning the drive is going to fail

back everything up dude

[WillRiker]

it could be a hard drive alarm meaning the drive is going to fail

back everything up dude

I always do now. Have an external HDD that everything is backed up to.

Thing is only just over a year old though...surely the hard drive shouldn't be ready to fail just yet....especially when I have older PCs still working fine.

[Maximal]

call dell and talk to their support, they'll get younto look at stuff for them and maybe they can tell you exactly what it is

[WillRiker]

Just weird as it's been running fine all day so I want to say it's probably nothing....but then again why would it "beep" unless it was something wrong?

Beeping is never a good thing ordinarily.

[Purple Dragon]

yea my alarm beeps every morning,and thats not a good thing...

[Morty]

Could possibly be that the PC just got stuck in a function of some sort. Kinda like when you hit the keyboard to many times when the PC is booting up. Doesn't know what to do witht he commands so it beeps a warning.

Might have just been a random freakish event.

Why was the PC on but nobody was on it?

[WillRiker]

PC is pretty much always on as, for the most part, there is pretty much always someone awake in our house 24 hours a day...maybe it was just tired huh?

Although last night I went to sleep early (1am) Kelly fell asleep and so Jeremy went to bed and left the PC on...that and I usually set it away either uploading or downloading things through the night when it's not being used...oh and I burn DVDs when no-one is actually using it, so yeah, it's pretty much always on.

[mommysalomi]

yea my alarm beeps every morning,and thats not a good thing...

That was funny !!!!

[Morty]

forced awake in the morning sucks.