Comp acting strange

Hey every so often or so my comp will make this strange kinda robotic cricket chrip from the tower. Sometimes it goes away after a few seconds but sometimes it causes my comp to freeze and I have to restart. Last time it froze was durring RTW. Has anyone have any ideas what this is?AMD Athlon 64 3700+ ~2.2:: 1 Gig RAM:: BFG 7950 GTAny other info needed please ask.Comp acting strange
robotic cricket chrip,LOLComp acting strange
For lack of better words yes lol. BTW it is also becoming more frequent.
Maybe there's something livin in there.
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It could be the alarm that some mobos ahve that the cpu is exceeded whatever you have set as the threshold temp in the bios. paticluary how it happens during games when your whole system heats up.
Maybe, but it also sometimes happens when I'm just surfing the internet.
Maybe its something touching a fan.
Its not really a noise you can make with something touching a fan. It has a definite rhythm, and is more of a beeping.
how loud is it?And have you ever looked inside the case when it does it?
[QUOTE=''Gimli524'']Its not really a noise you can make with something touching a fan. It has a definite rhythm, and is more of a beeping.[/QUOTE]That actually sounds a lot like the noise your keyboard makes when you push too many keys (or a key you're not allowed to push). Do you think that's possible?
You could have a fan starting to fail and that is an alarm letting you know its going to slow. Download a motherboard monitoring program most motherboards ship with one or it will be downloadable from there sight. Check your fan speeds when its not chirping then when it starts again check the speed then if one is slowing down significantly you'll know to replace it. Also look at temps if soething is getting considerably hotter you will know the fan there is bad.
That actually reminds me - if one of your fans is dropping below what the motherboard thinks is a safe RPM, its warning may go off. It's usually a more shrill sound than one you're describing (constant as well), but it'd be a good thing to check. It's also worth noting that this does not necessarily mean that one of your fans is failing, just that it's operating at a lower RPM than your motherboard thinks it should be.
[QUOTE=''RayvinAzn''][QUOTE=''Gimli524'']Its not really a noise you can make with something touching a fan. It has a definite rhythm, and is more of a beeping.[/QUOTE]That actually sounds a lot like the noise your keyboard makes when you push too many keys (or a key you're not allowed to push). Do you think that's possible?[/QUOTE]Yeah he could have a bad key on his keyboard to I didn't think about that.
[QUOTE=''pcdebol''][QUOTE=''RayvinAzn''] [QUOTE=''Gimli524'']Its not really a noise you can make with something touching a fan. It has a definite rhythm, and is more of a beeping.[/QUOTE]That actually sounds a lot like the noise your keyboard makes when you push too many keys (or a key you're not allowed to push). Do you think that's possible?[/QUOTE]Yeah he could have a bad key on his keyboard to I didn't think about that. [/QUOTE]Get a cheap $10 USD keyboard first then try to check for a dying fan.
[QUOTE=''roulettethedog'']Get a cheap $10 USD keyboard first then try to check for a dying fan.[/QUOTE]That would help if one of his keys was on the way out, but if he's locking his keyboard with too many keystrokes, that might only make the problem worse with a cheap keyboard. I'd try to duplicate the problem first (pressing a lot of keys at once and seeing if the noise crops up again), since that's free to do.

If its a clicking sound that is coming from the hard drive then the HDD is about to die. Sometimes when a computer freezes... you get the yetti.