Sounds like some bearings are giving out. Probably a cooling fan or even a
hard drive. Based on your final description, I would first suspect the power
supply.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul E. Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 3:00 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Dead PC - English siren


My wife's PC died last night.  It went dead and emitted an "english siren"
type of warning and continued until the power button was pressed for a few
seconds (the hard 'off' command).

I looked at it today.  Replaced the CPU, no change.  Replaced the MB, no
change.  (both were PROBABLY good).

Final symptoms on power-up were: Fans on, two to three second warmup, then
fans off and siren.

Accepting any and all imput.

Thanks in Advance,

Paul E. Mason
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