PC sometimes beeps.

EyeOfTheLiger · January 6, 2019

It's a pretty quiet, single short beep. Pretty low pitched? Sometimes a beep then a short whirring noise, sometimes just the beep, sometimes just the whirr. Not quite sure where the beep is coming from though. Have pretty much isolated it to when I run HWMonitor after hitting yes to allow it to make changes. Only happens sometimes, I'm pretty sure it only happens after I haven't opened it for a 2-3+ hours or so. It's on a newly purchased hard drive and is one of the 2-3 programs I have on it as I have everything else on my SSDs. It's also the only program that I've really been using on it, all the rest are just random files that I haven't used in weeks.

When the beep happens there are no errors or criticals in event viewer, and nothing negative happening performance-wise. Should also note that temps are more than fine.

HDD:Seagate BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch (ST2000DM006)

Processor: ryzen 2600

Mobo: B450 Tomahawk

PSU:EVGA Supernova 650 G2, 80+ Gold 650W

badreg · January 6, 2019

Are you sure it's not just the hard drive spinning up and spinning down? You can test this by putting it to sleep and accessing the drive.

smartmontools has a command that will put a drive to sleep:

smartctl.exe -s standby,now x:

EyeOfTheLiger · January 6, 2019

Might be it, it doesn't sound like a normal PC beep. I've heard my mobo beep before on boot after I'd first built it before I troubleshooted that, and it sounds completely diff. I've also ran crystal disk info and seatools and they all came back as good for the drive.