Right well Recently I have been playing games online and my pc had a very good spec (about a year ago). When I am playing these games (it has happened on two one being oblivion and the other a far more modest game called elastomania that would run on an acorn) ... after a short while a noise which i can only assume is the fans starts getting louder/frantic and before i know it there is an incessant beeping noise coming from what sounds like my hard drive. People seem split on decision that hard drives can/cannot beep. Like I said before it has nothing to do with my spec. I took of the side and had a listen and it really sounded like my hard drive (Seagate ST3160812A 160GB 7200RPM ATA/133 8MB Cache - OEM). I then got some cotton buds and with the power off dusted down my fans very particularly just incase it was something being overheated. This failed also. I noticed that when you set the numberlock arrows to work as a mouse when you turn it off and on the noise comes from the smae place respectively which leads me to wonder if it is my motherboard (Asus A8N-SLI SE Socket 939 Nvidia NF4 SLI ATX - Sound, Giga Lan USB 2.0 1000MHz FSB SATA)? Its srange how it only occurs on certain games and on games which take considerably less to run than others in certain cases. I am absolutely clueless as to what might be the problem and have no idea where to begin with BIOS or anything so any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Your friend, Alex
