PC Beeping and freezing

MitjaHD said:

Maybe something like this:

Yes! Total overkill! Love it.

Did you ever do the test to determine if the beep was coming from the PC or the speakers?
See Post #9

How about looking in Event Viewer? Did you do that? Did you find anything relevant?

I suspect a hardware or driver fault (pure guess). My next step would be to start disconnecting or disabling components, one at a time, while gaming to see if I could isolate a device that causes the problem.

The components of your computer are:

• The core components - Motherboard, Processor, RAM, Power Supply, and Video Processor - these you don't disable - (yet!)
• Then the motherboard components: Sound chip, LAN Chip.
• Then the basic components: Hard drives, Optical Drives, Add On Cards.
• Then the core connected components: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, speakers.
• Then the USB connected components: Printers, scanners, external drives, WiFi, etc.

You start at the bottom of that list and either disconnect or disable (using Device Manager) each component (device) - one at a time - and test to see if the problem goes away when that device/component is disconnected.
This is a trial and error process to find out which component is causing the problem.


In Event Viewer you look at the items listed under "Critical" or "Error", double click on each one to see all the events under that category, and read the error log to see if anything is mentioned that would give a clue to a specific device or component that is failing often. If the times recorded for the failures roughly match the instances of the freezes then you've got your suspect.