PC-Speaker sounds like Ambulance... what does that mean???

[Wiruz]

When i booted up a few minutes ago, the PC speaker sounded like an ambulance, and continued to do so all the way into windows - it first stopped a few minutes ago (lasted for some 5 minutes)

At first i thought it could be a defective DIMM, so i removed a 32 megabyte module that i had gotten from a friend yesterday. I already have a 128 MB, and a 64 MB - both Apacer. I have always run them at 112, but i couldn't get the new module to run at this speed (although the friend i got it from used to run it at 143... and it is PC100... )

The ram-module worked fine when i ran it @ 112, at "Normal" speed (the other modules run at "Fast" setting)

I turned on the 'puter and left the room, and when i got back, the screen was turned off (normally turns it by itself, AOC 7GLR), but i tried turning it on manually - no signal.
I rebooted the 'puter, and the ambulance sound started. I tried to get it into the BIOS, but as soon as i touched the "delete" key, it rebooted again - still the ambulance sound was sounding.

I turned all power off, and removed my new Ram-module and booted up.

The ambulance siren was still there, but it booted all the way into windows with no error messages at all (still running). I did a virus check, which didn't find anything - so now i'm kinda clueless...

System specs:
K6-3 450 @ 448 (112 x 4)
Epox G2, 1 meg edition
192 MB PC-100 @ 112 (128 x 1, 64 x 1) - Apacer
Marvel G400
Adaptec AHA-2910 SCSI controller

Windows reports no errors, and no hardware is missing from the system tab.

What does the ambulance siren sound mean?
(III-UUU-III-UUU-III-UUU... and so on)

Wiruz, The Digital Hippie

[wyvrn]

I never heard of that one. I would try another virus program just for grins, you can get Innoculate IT for free.

Did you check your running processes? Reinstall your sound card drivers? Look for conflicts?

Me is stumped.

[jnas]

Check your cpu temp this usually means your cpu fan has gone out and your cpu is getting to hot.

John

[Wiruz]

Me is very stumped to!

When i turned the power off last night, everything was working great.

No conflicts, nor shared IRQ's (for the first time in a long time)

The PC-speaker is not hooked up to the soundcard.

OH! - btw - when i popped in that extra memory module - the bios reported 223.xxx.xxx bytes of mem - shouldn't it be >224.xxx.xxx bytes? - windows reported all 224 Mbytes

I ran Norton AV, with a fairly new update - nothing at all.

I just killed a program called "Whagent" - dunno what it is - but none of my programs ceased functioning.

I've heard BIOS warning beeps before, but this is to wierd...

rant:
You gyus just tracked down Chris Kim The Spammer, and virtually put him out of buisness, but no one can tell Kim The Digital Hippie why his 'puter is sounding like the police comming down the driveway? (My real name is Kim, common boys name in denmark)
/rant

(sometimes people needs to get pissed off to get motivated) *lol*

~Wiruz, The Digital Hippie (paraniod whenever i hear a siren - they might be comming for me!)

[Wiruz]

UPDATE:

ASFAIK, it can't be a virus - the sound starts right after the Beep, that tells me that everything is alright - wierd?

IF it is a virus, i'm thankfull for it not being "evil" (busting my bios) - why would anybody make a virus that infects the bios, and makes the computer sound like a police car? (it wont be long before my friends will stop visiting me http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )

Totally Puzzled to say the least...

[Wiruz]

The fan is running, and it doesn't beep like that when it goes of (when it hits 50 degrees celcius) - heard that before - why wont fan cables plug themselves in after i've unplugged them? (my sharptooth's brush with death - close!)

To the best of my knowledge, everything is working fine

[cyclone2]

Do you have a motherboard utility that checks temp and voltages?
Mine did the same thing with Motherboard Monitor and my voltage was slightly off so I moved the slider over a bit to account for the difference and it went away http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Variable]

Yep must be a motherboard monitor...
maybe you disturbed one of your fans when you installed the RAM?
Or maybe somehow it got the voltage wrong...

[Wiruz]

When i booted up today, there was nothing wrong... ?

My temp. warning is at 50 degrees C, but the room temperature was some 15 degrees - it couldn't have been due to it was to hot (cant go from 15 to 50 in e few seconds, when the fan is running)

Well - I'll try re-installing to Ram today

This really had me puzzled...