sat-1205 Gateway PC making a noise

[James]

I have a 4 year old P3 (small) Gateway PC... Does anyone know what the
sat-1205 (little round black, with a hole in the top - looks like small
speaker) is and what it does - I have one that keeps clicking. If I put my
finger on it it sort of clicks muffled - any ideas please

James

 

[James]

I have a 4 year old P3 (small) Gateway PC... Does anyone know what the
sat-1205 (little round black, with a hole in the top - looks like small
speaker) is and what it does - I have one that keeps clicking. If I put my
finger on it it sort of clicks muffled - any ideas please

James

the mobo is a MS-6312 ver 1

 

[kony]

I have a 4 year old P3 (small) Gateway PC... Does anyone know what the
sat-1205 (little round black, with a hole in the top - looks like small
speaker) is and what it does - I have one that keeps clicking. If I put my
finger on it it sort of clicks muffled - any ideas please

James

.... sounds like your describing the system speaker, aka buzzer, beeper

 

[James]

... sounds like your describing the system speaker, aka buzzer, beeper

anyone know why it keeps clicking? - bad power? - dodgy CPU?

thanks

 

[kony]

anyone know why it keeps clicking? - bad power? - dodgy CPU?

thanks

When is it clicking?
Does the system appear properly functioning, otherwise?

Could be a stuck keyboard key, and or keyboard internally shorting.
It would be easy enough to just unplug the keyboard if it's a
repetitive sound, it should then stop immediately of course.

The OS can also trigger system tick sound on errors... I don't recall
how to disable it at the moment but that shouldn't be happening too
often.

Possibly the BIOS has a health monitor feature that's supposed to be
beeping that speaker for (some reason) but instead it's only managing
a click?

I vaguely recall a virus doing that, but IIRC, that was a LONG time
ago... accessed any really old media recently? Running antivirus
scanner wouldn't hurt if you haven't already.

It just occured to me, that you haven't confirmed that it's the
speaker on the motherboard, rather than a similar speaker found on
some modems.



Dave