ALARM! ALARM!

RedFury · May 10th, 2003, 10:03 PM

ALARM! ALARM!

Never heard this before....have any of you?

Found a virus and eliminated it on the 4th of May. Defragged and scan disked the HDD afterwards.

Here's the deal now...On a fresh boot without doing anything for the first 4 minutes I get this horrible high pitched alternating alarm tone from the case speaker. It's not an overheat alarm, I've double checked that. It happens everytime I reboot or fresh boot. 4 minutes later, the alarm sounds and won't shut off. It shut off once when opening a program, but now it won't shut off at all unless I reboot and wait another 4 minutes. I've had to disable the system speaker to avoid tenitus...ouch!

AVG reported it as a trojan music search virus in mp3.exe
Dr. Watson said something altered system files and says something is amiss with the display.

Now is says all is okay.

I downloaded Adaware 6.0 and removed 27 items that got missed by the previous version, but still have the same problem.

What's going on?

PyroSama · May 10th, 2003, 10:08 PM

I get sounds after a while if I run my comp dual display then unhook my second monitor. Maybe its something to do with your display.

PyroSama

RedFury · May 10th, 2003, 10:14 PM

Haven't changed anything as far as the display goes, or any other configuration since or before the occurance. Everything RUNS fine, I just have this loud 2 tone beeping in my right ear, which is getting annoying!

Dr. Watson isn't reporting anything wrong with the display anymore either....this is just strange.

MDS · May 10th, 2003, 10:22 PM

what is your mobo? 2-tone allarms are usually CPU or video. might try pluging a different fan into the CPU fan header and plug the cpu fan to the psu. Sometimes the rpm sensor will set off an alarm if the system thinks it is not turning. Are you running any MBM or other temp monitors? check to see if there is an audio alarm setting in there.

RedFury · May 10th, 2003, 10:45 PM

Those were my first guesses. Hardware doctor is running within spec..no alarms should be triggered from what it is reporting. I uncheck the beep boxes for all the events it monitors and see if that does anything, but I don't think that's the problem. Everything else seems to run well until the alarm starts going off, and then it runs well, the only thing I notice is a slight shimmer in the cursor as I write this.

RedFury · May 11th, 2003, 02:55 AM

Well, so far so good. I wiped all the drivers off the system with RegCleaner and reinstalled every driver and component in the system, right down to power management functions and my dial up adapter! So, clean slate for drivers. NO beeps, tones or anything else that annoys me usually...yet. Of course, perhaps I forgot to hook up the system speaker or it blew from all the damn noise

Hopefully I won't have to post anymore on this except to say that I'm having no more problems with this particular problem.

RedFury · May 11th, 2003, 09:01 PM

W32.Supernova
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'Patch the leaks or the ship will sink'
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Just started looking for files in explorer and found this in a text file with a file name of only numbers..two of the exact same message in a text file with different file names...all numbers in the windows folder...I'm looking for more.

Oh, and the noise came back, but it isn't coming on every 4 minutes anymore, seems almost like it is triggered by an event, but I haven't narrowed down what it would be exactly. Seems to be triggered by being offline...or the act of shutting down my connection ( both ) more than not when it isn't in the 4 minute cycle....damn this is getting frustrating.

thronka · May 11th, 2003, 09:07 PM

Time for a fresh install! That Alarm Alarm virus makes the speaker on the case do that. I would do a low level and reinstall everything. Make sure you do a live update and install your AntiVirus FIRST before anything. It will ensure that you are completely protected.

RedFury · May 11th, 2003, 11:54 PM

Well, I looked up the w32supernova virus and according to what I read at Bulldog, I removed the registry keys, searched for all the file names it creates and deleted anything else suspicious...I'm gonna have a lick at kicking this virus' arse before I allow it to force me into a format. It's a low level virus with medium spread through MSN, which I have but don't use so I'm pretty sure I'm okay there. You get the dang thing through Kazaa and that is gone now too.