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billL
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 DELL DIMENSION 8400 ALARM BELL
Dell, Vista Home premium
It started about a week ago, quite loud one second ring that repeats for about 15 minutes starting at 12:15 PM every day. I ran Malwarebytes on both HDD's - Nothing. My Oregon Scientific WMR 968 weather station has no alarms set. DELL is behind hardwired router firewall and running AVG anti-virus. Nothing new running. Rings from inside the box, rear, bottom. Just annoying. Can this be a low battery alarm?

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ASKED: April 24, 2009  6:03 AM
UPDATED: September 13, 2011  9:18 PM
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It is a hardware problem. Call Dell and if the server is under maintenance they will send someone to fix it.
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Did you try and check temperatures for CPU, Cabinet and so on?

Alessandro Panzetta
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But it is strange that it starts at the same time, every day. Sounds like some kind of programmed alarm.

Have you had a look at event viewer ?

Since you know when it is about to begin, I would see a running process list ( with task manager ) before and after it has started, to see if there is some new process running when it is happening.

carlosdl
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As it turned out, the weather station was causing the problem, but it wasn’t an alarm! Don’t know what it was. It disappeared after reinstalling the driver software.

billL
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