Help! I suspect one of my comp's fans is failing!

[Goku7]

I read somewhere that some motherboards are programmed to play a little bit of some Beethoven (Spelling is wrong, I think) song through the cheap little PC speaker when it detects that one of the cooling fans (I forgot which) stops working.

Anyway, I was playing FF8 when my mom came in, asking me about renewing my subscription to Nintendo Power.  I had the game paused, so no sound was coming out.  All of a sudden I hear a series of beeps that almost sounded like the beginning of one of Beethoven's songs.  I couldn't tell exactly, because I couldn't tell where it was coming from, and mom wouldn't shut up while it did it.  Mom thought it came from the computer, but she thought it was something that the computer was supposed to do, so she didn't pay attention when I was telling her to stop talking so I can listen.

By the time she stopped, it stopped playing the song.  It hasn't happened again since before dinner.  I don't own anything that would have made a series of beeps like that.

Still, is it true that some motherboards are designed to play a song when one of the fans fail?  If anyone knows about what I'm describing, please help. For your information, my board is an ASUS VX97 model.

[Darkness]

woah, thats actually really cool. anyway, just buy a new one; they're cheap enough.

[Sephiroth 3D]

Wow... I've never heard of such a thing. I build and maintain a lot fo computers, but that's a new one to me...

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[Reznor007]

Uhh...I've never even heard of that.

[Darkness]

i think ill try to wear out my fan....

[Aaron]

I service computers too and have never heard this.  Most motherboard errors are simple beeps.

Ex. several beeps over and over without end = bad mem or no mem
Long beep often means bad or no vid card
etc.

[Goku7]

Well, whatever I heard lasted for a good 8 seconds, and wasn't like either of the two normal beep codes that Aaron described.

Also, remember I had FF8 running; but it was paused during a battle scene.  When it made the beeps, nothing else in the system was affected.  I was able to continue playing the game if I wanted to, but I exited the game for fear of the CPU or power supply overheating, and costing me another $200 (if it was the CPU).
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[Darkness]

maybe it was some easter egg type thing in ff8, or someone was hacking you and messing with your pc speaker. ask your friends =)

[Goku7]

No possibility of hacking.  The DSL I'm using is protected by a Linksys (is spelling right?) HARDWARE FIREWALL.

I seriously doubt my friends (who only have modems, except for one who has DSL) would have the knowlegde or knowhow to make it do something like that.

[Darkness]

theres a bunch of programs (like sub7) that can do that kind of stuff.

[Goku7]

It happened again!!

But.....I figured it out!

You see, I have this old video-game-watch that plays a small version of Super Mario World (you know, the first SNES mario game) was on my desk somewhere, directly above my speakers.  Anyway, its battery is basically dead, but it seems to still have barely enough of a charge to make the watch malfunction and send out a spazzed, sporadic series of beeps, which sound like the introduction to the old Super Mario World  title screen song.  Enough of the notes must have been similar to what I thought was Beethoven

So, therefore, it seems to be a false alarm after all.  I'm relieved!

[Darkness]

hehe Mario's Symphony