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partyboy 20 Jun @ 9:09pm
I’m confused - Can someone explain this?
Pc started giving me 2 short infrequent beeps weeks ago and I didn’t think much of it. Then suddenly it started doing it every 10 seconds, everything started freezing 90% of the time, task manager showed C drive was spiking to 100% for most of the time. Restarted then couldn’t even boot up, figured OS drive was corrupted. Could only get into bios, windows resulted in blue screen. Tried a dif sata cable and to my surprise it’s working now. Wanted to confirm the sata cable was the issue so plugged it into another ssd. Both drives working fine now and no more beeps. Wtf? So could a cable not sitting correctly cause all that? Why would it suddenly not be sitting right a couple weeks ago when the PC was never even touched.
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partyboy 20 Jun @ 9:10pm 
Also the SSDs are 10 years old, maybe they are still the issue. But weird they are working perfectly fine again now. I don’t understand.
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_I_ 20 Jun @ 9:27pm 
how are the temps?

hot ssd will slow down

and some mobos would beep if the cpu is over temp and throttling
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Carlsberg 20 Jun @ 9:29pm 
The two short beeps indicate a memory error in most cases. I would think that a bad cable connection would interfere with page file which is memory related as it stores memory contents and possibly could cause an indirect memory error.
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partyboy 20 Jun @ 10:04pm 
Originally posted by _I_:
how are the temps?

hot ssd will slow down

and some mobos would beep if the cpu is over temp and throttling
Not sure on the ssd's but my gpu and cpu have great temps. The beeping used to happen the second I turned it on so I don't think it was that

Originally posted by Carlsberg:
The two short beeps indicate a memory error in most cases. I would think that a bad cable connection would interfere with page file which is memory related as it stores memory contents and possibly could cause an indirect memory error.
Wild if that's all it was, causing all this mayhem lol. I wanna know how a cable suddenly gets loose when the PC never moved a mm D:
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JacquesPatat 20 Jun @ 11:37pm 
beeps usually hardware problem, 2 short beeps with startup with some of my PC's i had, i usually found it to be in the direction of RAM being a problem. If the issue to an extent, was sorted out by changing sata cable or making sure it is well plugged in, so it is a possibility that either the cable was getting maybe loose (know older pc's with a combination with harddrives and fans vibrations and on top of that pc being moved around when going to LAN"s, might cause things to come loose), or it is maybe faulty, so sata cable are on the cheap side.
Last edited by JacquesPatat; 20 Jun @ 11:43pm
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Bad 💀 Motha 22 Jun @ 4:16pm 
Monitor the SSD temps too.
Can easily do this with HWMonitor or OpenHardwareMonitor
Last edited by Bad 💀 Motha; 22 Jun @ 4:16pm
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Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 23 Jun @ 3:30am 
Originally posted by partyboy:
Also the SSDs are 10 years old, maybe they are still the issue. But weird they are working perfectly fine again now. I don’t understand.
my hdd from 2001 still works i booted it up in an enclosure
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Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 23 Jun @ 3:31am 
Originally posted by Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}:
Originally posted by partyboy:
Also the SSDs are 10 years old, maybe they are still the issue. But weird they are working perfectly fine again now. I don’t understand.
my hdd from 2001 still works i booted it up in an enclosure
its prob even older then that since it came in a used pc in 2001

maybe 1998 era hdd? only 6GB cap from win98 days
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