weird tones from system speaker of xw8200

This is the strangest thing I've come across.

I've got an xw8200 that seems to randomly make serious of varied tones
from the system speaker.

it's sort of like deeeeee deeeee de de de, but the frequency is not the
same and the two long beep are almost run together into one.

It only happens when the machine is up and running (xp pro), never at
post, and the service guide has no such error codes, and the bezel LED and
keyboard lights never indicate a normal error.

I called HP about this last night, and the computer did it twice while I
was on the phone, tech there had no idea what that was either.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? The machine itself behaves fine
otherwise, and passes any hardware diagnostics that can be run on it.

It would be fun to just ay "it's some virus" but it seems too pointless to
even be that.

Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote in
news:g9ri1v$5ji$1@reader1.panix.com:

> This is the strangest thing I've come across.
>
> I've got an xw8200 that seems to randomly make serious of varied tones
> from the system speaker.
>
> it's sort of like deeeeee deeeee de de de, but the frequency is not
> the same and the two long beep are almost run together into one.
>
> It only happens when the machine is up and running (xp pro), never at
> post, and the service guide has no such error codes, and the bezel LED
> and keyboard lights never indicate a normal error.
>
> I called HP about this last night, and the computer did it twice while
> I was on the phone, tech there had no idea what that was either.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this before? The machine itself behaves
> fine otherwise, and passes any hardware diagnostics that can be run on
> it.
>
> It would be fun to just ay "it's some virus" but it seems too
> pointless to even be that.

I had an old EMachine that used to make funny noises if the microphone
unmuted. You could try muting the microphone, and see if that makes a
difference.