[Rollin' Rog]

I'd try removing as much hardware as you can and testing -- it might be a detection issue of some kind.

By the way if it is happening in the BIOS -- it is not a Win7 problem -- that is only a coincidence.

You could probably boot with a Puppy Linux boot disk and encounter the same thing >> http://www.puppylinux.com/

[Sunrunner1]

I removed the hard drive, graphics card, nic, and pci usb stuff... still a beep.

[antidote]

Hi, what motherboard are you using, and also what kind of memory is installed?

[Sunrunner1]

FIC KTBC51G Motherboard
512 MB 400 MHz DDR SDRAM x2
1 GB 400 MHz DDR SDRAM x2

[Monty28]

Hi....did this problem ever get resolved?

Reason for asking is that after upgrading from XP Pro to WIndows 7 Pro I also have a '30 minute problem'. Not a system beep, but an interrupt of some description every 30 minutes on the dot which, depending on what I am doing at the time, can have the following effects:
1. If the screen saver is running it is taken off as if the mouse was moved.
2. If there is a standard desktop in view with say one application window on view and 'selected' the 30 minute issue causes the window to be deselected (i.e. as if I had clicked on a blank area of the desktop)
3. If I am watching a DVD movie in full screen mode, the 30 minute issue causes the movie to be taken out of full screen mode (i.e. taskbar and media player 'window frame' become visible). Go back into full screen mode, fine....but 30 minutes later it happens again.

A trivial but annoying issue. Any ideas? Have checked via Task Manager and Event Viewer, but cannot find a culprit.

[Mumbodog]

Monty, it sounds like maybe it is trying to hibernate or sleep?

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[Monty28]

Thanks Mumbodog, though not sure it could be that. I've been through all the power management settings and just about have everything disabled. No reason therefore (that I can see) why the pc would be trying to hibernate or sleep.

But thanks anyway...

[Sunrunner1]

Hello,

The motherboard beep just stopped one day... I didn't do anything to start it and I didn't do anything that stopped it. People that I have talked to think it was some kind of internal sensor issue but I'm not too sure. It lasted about a week before it finally just stopped.

[joeten]

post error

[Monty28]

My problem seems to have been resolved (or at least the cause identified). Kept thinking that the problem was most likely software related. Compared the setup of my laptop with my desktop (pretty near identical software-wise), and noted that the 30-minute interrupt did NOT happen on the laptop. One obvious sofware difference was that on the laptop I had AVG 8.5, having backed out 9.0 due to this problem:

http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free...=show&id=38029

However, desktop was still at 9.0....so backed it out, re-installed 8.5 and bingo, the 30-minute problem has gone! So now I just need to find out what AVG is doing.....

Thanks for the help/suggestions, appreciated.