Mousewheel scrolling causing beeping sound

[Aelius33]

EDIT: I found the solution/culprit. It was the result of a system driver called beep.sys. Here's what you do to fix it:

 

1) Go to Control Panel

2) Click Device Manager

3) Under the "View" dropdown in the menu, enable Show hidden devices

4) Expand the Non-Plug and Play Drivers category

5) Right-click Beep, click Properties

6) Go to the Driver tab

7) Under Startup change the dropdown to Disabled

8) Optionally: click the Stop button as well

9) Click OK

10) You're done

 

I should mention that when I click the Stop button it won't let me change the Startup dropdown item to Disabled, so change the dropdown item to Disabled first. In any case, even if you don't tell it to Stop it will not start up again as long as you put it to Disabled under Startup.

 

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Here's a 5 second clip demonstrating the bizarre beeping sound. It doesn't happen all the time, but I hear it on some occasions when I scroll too fast with my mouse or when there's lag or some animation delay in whatever I'm scrolling through. Each beep you hear corresponds to one instance of the scrollwheel being triggered.

 

This has existed ever since I build my new PC a few months ago. It did not exist on my old PC.

 

This phenomenon is particularly prone to happen in the old legacy Windows dropdown menus which are long enough to be scrolled through.

 

For example, from the Control Panel if you click Sound and then go to the Sounds tab and then click any of the program events in the long list (say, Asterisk) and then click the bottom-most dropdown menu under the heading of Sounds: you'll notice that scrolling through that dropdown menu is artificially slowly animated. This causes my scrollwheel beeping sound to trigger, whereas a more smoothly animated list (such as the Program Events list in the same Sounds window just above the dropdown I just mentioned) does not cause this beeping sound.

 

I'd say the beeping sound occurs on less than like 1% of all scrollwheel events, but it's definitely annoying, bizarre as hell, and relegated to the laggy events (such as when a Flash video is acting up on YouTube and I try to scroll down while it's laggy) or those slow legacy-feeling scroll fields in Windows.

 

My system (if it matters) is as follows:

 

Windows 7 x64

ASUS Rampage V Extreme x99 motherboard

Intel i7 5820k

16 GB DDR4 G.Skill RAM

Logitech G400s mouse (with corresponding Logitech Gaming Software)

[Deathstroke]

First thing that comes to my head is a virus, but that's just from working in a computer shop for a few years, maybe do a scan or two and see what comes up?

 

Does this also occur in safe mode?

[Jahus]

This weir sound happens on my computer when it has the screen off (screen sleep) and that I wake it up with the mouse wheel. I believe it's natural to Windows and, if I recall correctly, existed prior to Windows 10.

Research on the Internet shows that it might happen when mouse lags. Waking up screen might cause that lag in my situation, hence the beeps.

Investigating it further might be interesting.