time to throw away my computer?

[magus]

well you guys know that a while ago i had some problem with a broken hard-disk... but here's the thing,recently once in a while the PC starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until i reboot the whole thing

soooo i'm starting to suspect the hard-disk wasn't the only thing that broke! so far it's a pretty rare event but it got me worried,it emits a low sound beep at intermittence's like *beep      beep     beep      beep*

maybe there is a problem with the fan and the CPU temperature ends up too high?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah it's done for.

[Van Cruncheon]

sell your fuckin' consoles, get a gaming rig

[bork]

Start saving up like $400 and go to fry's and just get a budget pc. They're actually pretty okay if you're not trying to have a monster pc *shrug*

Magus lives in Italy, IIRC.

[Brehvolution]

reseat the ram

[Cerveza mas fina]

Maybe you can torrent a new computer from a local shop.

Or just copy it.

[magus]

Maybe you can torrent a new computer from a local shop.

Or just copy it.

man you guys can act so childish
yes yes i pirate stuff,do you guys want me to put it in my tag?

now with that said,are you guys going to help me recognize the problem or continue to squawk?

[demi]

um... your post is a bit vague to help. when does it beep? does any errors occur? have you looked inside your unit itself? cleaned it out?

[magus]

it starts to beep after around 4 hours since been turning on i think?
no errors of sort occur
i cleaned out the thing a while ago when i removed the faulty hard disk

so far it only happened twice,since i removed the faulty hard disk which could have be around a month ago which is why i wasn't worrying too much about it in the first place

[Van Cruncheon]

can we put that magus is a yucky poor and a degraded pir8 in his tag?

[Brehvolution]

Probably a temp alarm. Clean off the old crusty shit from the cpu and get some new heatsink grease.

[Madrun Badrun]

well you guys know that a while ago i had some problem with a broken hard-disk... but here's the thing,recently once in a while the PC starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until i reboot the whole thing

soooo i'm starting to suspect the hard-disk wasn't the only thing that broke! so far it's a pretty rare event but it got me worried,it emits a low sound beep at intermittence's like *beep      beep     beep      beep*

maybe there is a problem with the fan and the CPU temperature ends up too high?

Lots of the computers in our compsci lab do the same beeping problem.  I wouldn't be super worried.

[Great Rumbler]

Wow, magus, I knew your computer was old, but I didn't think it was THAT old.

Does it sound anything like this:

[Mr. Gundam]

Start saving up like $400 and go to fry's and just get a budget pc. They're actually pretty okay if you're not trying to have a monster pc *shrug*

We're looking to get a new laptop, so I've been eying the Fry's ads lately. I'll probably drop ~$400-$500 on a new laptop.

[Smooth Groove]

sell your fuckin' consoles, get a gaming rig

Make this the new EB headline.

[magus]

Wow, magus, I knew your computer was old, but I didn't think it was THAT old.

Does it sound anything like this:

i wish it was that old

gaming on a 486

instead it's just shitty old

[Cerveza mas fina]

You can build a new PC for 300/400 that will play almost anything on high settings and will shit all over 360/PS3.