Regular beep from soundcard/speakers

[kitster]

My pretty new (February) Dell XPS 400 is emitting a regular (every 10 seconds) low beep from the soundcard/speakers.  This is not the usual startup or error beep from the tower.  This is going through the soundcard and it's about to drive me nuts.  Is there any way to tell what programs are currently using the soundcard?

[dl65]

kitster......  ctrl/alt/del will bring up the task manager ..... look at the applications tab to see whats running and then click on the processes and look to see whats active ..... that may give you a clue ......
Have you D/L any driver updates recently which might coincide with your issue?
BTW ...what happens if you play a cd or a movie ....do you still hear the beeps ?

dl65  

[dl65]

kitster ........You could also check .........
click start /run ...then in the run box type dxdiag and enter ......
when the new window opens ...click on the audio tabs and see if it indicates anything not working .

dl65  

[kitster]

No new drivers.  I haven't installed anything at all for a while.  I have killed all active apps except for Firefox and IEI just killed a bunch of Systray stuff which didn't help.  The other processes are being very quiet going by CPU Usage and Memory delta.  It still beeps when I play a CD or MP3.  

Now that I check it soundsa like it's only coming through the center channel and the subwoofer.

[dl65]

 kitster.....  Have you checked using the dxdiag   yet ?
If you can find anything wrong , I would suggest calling Dell as its a new machine .
BTW ...is this something that has just started ?

dl65  

[kitster]

dxdiag didn't show anything unusual.  Calling Dell is my last resort.  I haven't had a lot of luck with them in the past.  I'm trying the messageboards there too.

[dl65]

 kitster.......

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums

Make sure you have your service tag number available when you go there ...it will assist .
It's possible that there is something wrong with the sound card ..........

dl65