Paul,
   Having seen no response from the resident experts on your query, I
would suggest you check the Event Viewer for errors or Warnings.
Might give you some input on what service is causing the problem -
then re-post that information here and the experts can give further
info if needed.

HTH,
Ken Hollingsworth


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:23:22 -0400, Paul A. Shippert
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings all--
>
> I have recently begun to experience a very regular 'system event' (for lack
> of a better term)
> which apparently has the Windows XP Exclamation sound assigned to it. Every
> 90 seconds
> (+ or - 3 seconds) this sound occurs. My system is a Pentium 4 2.8 GB, 1GB
> dual channel
> DDR RAM computer on an ASUS P4S800 board, with a Western Digital ATA 100 80
> GB
> hard disk, an ATI Radeon 9200 Atlantis 128 MB video card, Creative Labs
> Audigy sound board,
> OEM (Optowrite) 8X DVD burner, Creative 52X CD-ROM, a floppy drive, and an
> additional (to the built-in network interface) Linksys NIC. My OS is Windows
> XP Professional
> SP2 (which installed without incident from the 266 MB downloaded 'IT
> professional distribution
> package'), and I run Avast! antivirus (which regularly updates itself). I
> regularly update and run
> SpywareBlaster 3.2, Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3, Panicware's PopupStopper,
> and Adaware SE
> Personal Edition. None of those utilities has found any evidence of malware.
> This computer is the
> Internet Gateway for the other two computers on my home peer-to-peer network
> (hence the
> additional network card). There are 43 processes running (in addition to the
> Audigy control panel),
> most of which I can account for, based on hardware and/or applications,
> i.e., a couple of ati services,
> the Nero InCD service, PSfree, etc. The processor load is only around 2%
> most of the time (when
> I check) and the commit charge on the page file is only ca. 237MB. (The
> "exclamation", by the way
> causes the processor usage to throw a 1% "blip".)
>
> Does anyone have any wisdom to share as to what may be causing this very
> regular "event"?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Paul A. Shippert
> Utilitarian
> Margaret Brent Middle School
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