unwanted sound after boot

[FrozenN2]

Five to ten minutes after boot an unwanted sound plays, it is startling.
I thought it might be from the bios on my motherboard (Asus k8vse with
AMD64 bit processor and 3gigs ram) but I havent found a bios setting to
fix it. Sounds are disabled in the control panel. In XP64 the sound plays
very loud through the system speakers. In XP it plays through the PC
speaker only. Also the text size in internet explorer is messed up until
after the sound plays in both operating systems. I can't use internet
explorer 'till then. Very strange and annoying. Any ideas.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Bit confused.You wrote-"In XP it plays through the PC speaker only".The
sound will come from speakers only.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[FrozenN2]

Bit confused.You wrote-"In XP it plays through the PC speaker
only".The sound will come from speakers only.

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Five to ten minutes after boot an unwanted sound plays, it is
startling. I thought it might be from the bios on my motherboard
(Asus k8vse with AMD64 bit processor and 3gigs ram) but I havent
found a bios setting to fix it. Sounds are disabled in the control
panel. In XP64 the sound plays very loud through the system speakers.
In XP it plays through the PC speaker only. Also the text size in
internet explorer is messed up until after the sound plays in both
operating systems. I can't use internet explorer 'till then. Very
strange and annoying. Any ideas.

A PC speaker is a small internal speaker like the old IBM PC's used

 

[AZGLI]

Can you describe the sound? Is it musical, just a PC beep? What might
it sound like?

Also, can you isolate when it plays? Are there any error messages that
come up when it plays? 5 to 10 minutes after boot all of my systems
have loaded everything and are in idle again, so if your computer is
still loading programs after 5 minutes you may have a serious problem.

Any further information you might be able to contribute would be
helpful.

 

[FrozenN2]

It is a sharp piercing screech! If I've had too much coffee its even worse.
Like an ampified screech owl.

 

[FrozenN2]

OK. I timed it and in Windows XP Pro x64 Edition it is 5-6 minutes.
In Windows XP pro it was 7-8 minutes. Bootup is a little slow cause I
dual boot from a 20 gig hard drive to make backups easy but certainly
everthing has loaded by then and hard drive activity light had long
calmed down. What perplexes me is that Internet Explorer cannot format
a web page correctly until the sound has played for both operating
systems. In addition to the 20 gig I have an 800 and 600 gig array,
and AC'97 with soundmax mixer device. There are no error messages and
no problem devices. I think I'll try muting devices to further narrow
the problem. Thanks for your input!

 

[AZGLI]

The only thing that comes to mind for me would be a problem with IE
that causes the system error sound to play.

I would also check for updated BIOS and drivers for your soundcard. I
know that the AC'97 soundcard is one of the worst you can get.
Personally I installed a SoundBlaster.

The other thing it night be is a microphone feedback. If yo uhave a
webcam or a microphone on the system, unplug it and see if that solved
the problem.

Hope this helps.