[Shellymm]

I've been playing a very graphic intense video game online for the past two months. In order to play the game, I had to upgrade my memory and my video card so those are new. I have 3 sticks of 265MB of RAM and an NVIDIA GForce 4000 video card.

In the past week, my CPU has started beeping at me almost constantly while in the game. There's not a pattern to it that I can tell either. At first I thought maybe it was overheating so I popped off the side case and now have a fan blowing directly on it. Nope...still beeping. Someone suggested re-installing the drivers for the video card. Did that...still beeping. This is very important... It ONLY beeps when I'm playing the game. I can surf, email, play solitaire, etc, etc, etc and is quiet as a church mouse the entire time.

Any suggestions before I toss the stupid thing out the window?

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If its constantly beeping I would suspect it's overheating. Just because you have installed a fan blowing over the system, doesn't mean that this is sufficient. It could be your graphics card that overheating instead of the CPU. Do you have any way of checking the system temps?

[Samm]

If its constantly beeping I would suspect it's overheating. Just because you have installed a fan blowing over the system, doesn't mean that this is sufficient. It could be your graphics card that overheating instead of the CPU. Do you have any way of checking the system temps?

[Supergeek.dcse]

may be the game thinks its got a stuck key on keyboard but not in windows envorment

[Shellymm]

Samm...

Thanks for the reply.

Wouldn't I check the temps in the bios?

When I say that I have a fan there, I meant that I've opened the side casing and have a 7in fan blowing right on the entire CPU itself. Maybe even that isn't enough?

[Shellymm]

Supergeek...

Thanks for the reply.

How would I check to see if there's a stuck key?

[Supergeek.dcse]

can you try another keyboard

[Samm]

Samm...

Thanks for the reply.

Wouldn't I check the temps in the bios?

When I say that I have a fan there, I meant that I've opened the side casing and have a 7in fan blowing right on the entire CPU itself. Maybe even that isn't enough?

If your bios has a temperature monitoring utility, then yes, you can check the cpu temp in there. Run the system in windows for a while then reboot into the bios.

I doubt whether it will tell you the graphics card temps though. I guess you could try moving the fan (assuming the cpu temps are ok) so that it blows directly on the video card instead of the cpu & see if this makes any difference to the beeping noise.

[Supergeek.dcse]

get a couple of mpg videos and play them in two sepertat windows and leave them playing for while give the com some hard work to do and see if and see if it beeps at you then you neverknow it might be some thing coming down the line from the on line game