Alarm sound going off just today, getting more frequent

[ChrisWilkinson]

Hi,

I have been just sitting watching films on my laptop today when I noticed a sound like an electronic alarm going  off. It lasts just about 1second. I am getting worried at seems to be getting more frequent. At first, it was about once an hour but now, about 3 hours later, it is roughly every 15 minutes, although the actual timing is more random. I feel that the laptop is trying to tell me something which is only getting more urgent. I work from home on  this machine so I am getting very concerned that my laptop will just die. I thought maybe it is warning about overheating. The only other thing I could think of is that the mini-battery used  by the BIOS needs replacing (the laptop is over 3 years old now) - if it does have one of those.

I am using Windows 8 64-bit, but it does not sound like any Windows alert I have every heard and does not seem to be coming from the normal speaker.

thanks,

Chris

[Dragon-Fur]

@ChrisWilkinson 

Could be a bunch of stuff on the computer, though I would think the sound would be coming from the computer speakers in most cases.   OR.. Maybe not.  This is not my area of expertise.

I would suggest that if the computer is at all functional and you think "something" might be dying, that you run the component hardware tests.

Hardware Testing

HP Notebook PCs - Testing for Hardware Failures (Windows 10, 8)

One "other idea"

NOTE:  This idea is a bit "out there"; it is offered as a means to show the alarm could be related to "not dying computer":

• IF you have your computer connected to a UPS battery unit (external battery-surge-low power protection unit),
• If you have a UPS monitoring software on the computer that tracks connection and status between the computer and the backup unit,
• If you have your network switched off (to run backups, for example) or if the network is having issues (dropping and regaining the connection),
• IF the computer is losing connection to that battery backup unit - because, for example, it is running a program that checks connection to the monitor, that in turn, depends on a connection to your network,

Then,

Switch off the monitor software on the computer that is tracking connection between the backup unit software and the computer.

This is admittedly a bit convoluted and perhaps unlikely - it did happen to us recently and was a "first".  In our case, the alarm was sounding a bit more often than what you describe.  Unpleasant (until stopped) - but at least not "dying computer".

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