My old 4 year old Windows XP Home Laptop has started beeping every 16 seconds. The beep is sent through the speakers. The problem, I believe, has something to do with the battery system of the laptop as I have also noticed that the computer is no longer able to give me any estimate of the amount of charge on the battery. However, as a test, I changed the configuration of the computer so that there would be no report as to battery condition. This allows me to run the computer on battery (it would not prior to the configuration change it would go into hibernation), and I ran the computer on battery for over an hour before I decided that the test was sufficient. Unfortunately, even in desktop configuration, the beeps continue.



The beeps are not the Battery Critical or Battery Low wavs. In fact, I tried to find which wav file was being played to make the beep so I listened to over 180 wavs that I found on the computer, I could not find the file. So I will describe it as sounding like to old POST beep that meant that a computer had passed the Power On Self Test that we used to hear when booting computers back in the 1990s. Maybe some still do that?



Any ideas (other than replacing the laptop my wife already said NO! as Ive already replaced 2 computers in the last 4 months) ?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it is an XP Home SP2 machine with ALL updates installed.

The laptop is an Avertec 3150.

The BIOS is American Megatrends version 07.00T.

The beeps are short, 1 every 16.3 seconds (approximately).