The sounds your PC tower makes when you reboot or turn your PC on are not always noises you can simply ignore. Before your PC boots its operating system, the motherboard runs a suite of diagnostic ...

Your computer is a collection of moving and electrical parts, many of which naturally make some level of sound. The problem comes when the noise changes to become louder, sharper, or completely ...

I get a continuous beep when running an old Pentium 200 MMX computer with Windows 95. It doesn't happen until after the computer and OS is up and working. And sometimes it doesn't happen at all. I ...

Last week we reported on a strange beeping noise being generated by the dual 2 GHz Power Macintosh G5. Several readers have since corroborated the behavior, which appears to be normal - albeit ...

A novelty M.2 card from Japan can give your modern PC the startup sound of a vintage NEC PC-9801. Computers used to be a lot noisier than they are today. And I don’t just mean the whir of spinning ...

According to most reports, Apple's nine-fan design for the Power Macintosh G5 has made it noticeably quieter than some noisy Power Macintosh G4 MDD models. However, MacFixIt reader Craig Hein reports ...