Mine would not boot at all when I was in IDE socket # 4 on my Gigabyte GA-7vrxp and kept getting that friggin tone. I tapped the drive lightly with a rubber hammer. Still no reboot.
(actually this is one of the raid channels but you also can use it as a single IDE socket)
So I pulled the cable out of my dvd drive on a different IDE channel and plugged it in.
The Maxtor spooled up and the noise was gone.
I am backing up the drive today before I return it.