Hi all,
I got an Ultrabook II from PCSpecialist a couple of months ago. For the most part it's been fine, but recently I've had some issues that I'm struggling to identify.
A few weeks ago the laptop, out of nowhere, started beeping really loudly. I mean smoke-alarm loud. I turned it off immediately assuming it was overloading or about to explode. I restarted it a few times and eventually it stopped doing it. I assumed it was a bizarre one off, but today it's started doing it again.
The laptop itself boots up fine. I'll be doing something in windows, when all of a sudden the loud beeping will start. I can stop it by muting the speakers, but ultimately once it starts beeping it will shut itself down.
My first thought was thermal shutdown, especially as we're in the midst of very warm weather here in the UK. I've checked the temp of the laptop whilst it's been beeping, however, and find that nothing is above 40C. My old laptop used to run regularly on 50C and above (not healthy for it, admittedly, but it managed). I'm not sure this beeping has anything to do with thermal issues. If I leave the laptop a few minutes and turn it back on, it runs fine - I'm typing this post on it and it's running no problem. There is nothing unusual going on whilst the computer is beeping either.
I've read that it could be faulty/badly fitted hardware such as a RAM stick, but would the laptop even load at all if that was the case? Would it run for potentially hours without beeping before suddenly deciding to beep and shut down?
Or is it just a faulty motherboard? I have a warranty but I really don't want to send it back already. It took long enough to get the damn thing to me, I don't want to have to wait weeks to get it back - but if the hardware is faulty or badly constructed I'd obviously do so. I don't know whether to just ignore these beeping issues and hope they go away, or get it sent back and looked at in case something causes potential damage.
If anyone has any ideas I'd be interested to hear them... I keep thinking it's thermal related but the laptop is not hot, to touch or according to the temperature measures, so it'd be confusing if that was the case :/
I got an Ultrabook II from PCSpecialist a couple of months ago. For the most part it's been fine, but recently I've had some issues that I'm struggling to identify.
A few weeks ago the laptop, out of nowhere, started beeping really loudly. I mean smoke-alarm loud. I turned it off immediately assuming it was overloading or about to explode. I restarted it a few times and eventually it stopped doing it. I assumed it was a bizarre one off, but today it's started doing it again.
The laptop itself boots up fine. I'll be doing something in windows, when all of a sudden the loud beeping will start. I can stop it by muting the speakers, but ultimately once it starts beeping it will shut itself down.
My first thought was thermal shutdown, especially as we're in the midst of very warm weather here in the UK. I've checked the temp of the laptop whilst it's been beeping, however, and find that nothing is above 40C. My old laptop used to run regularly on 50C and above (not healthy for it, admittedly, but it managed). I'm not sure this beeping has anything to do with thermal issues. If I leave the laptop a few minutes and turn it back on, it runs fine - I'm typing this post on it and it's running no problem. There is nothing unusual going on whilst the computer is beeping either.
I've read that it could be faulty/badly fitted hardware such as a RAM stick, but would the laptop even load at all if that was the case? Would it run for potentially hours without beeping before suddenly deciding to beep and shut down?
Or is it just a faulty motherboard? I have a warranty but I really don't want to send it back already. It took long enough to get the damn thing to me, I don't want to have to wait weeks to get it back - but if the hardware is faulty or badly constructed I'd obviously do so. I don't know whether to just ignore these beeping issues and hope they go away, or get it sent back and looked at in case something causes potential damage.
If anyone has any ideas I'd be interested to hear them... I keep thinking it's thermal related but the laptop is not hot, to touch or according to the temperature measures, so it'd be confusing if that was the case :/
