Inspiron 1501 Single Random Beep

Hi,

 

Sadly my warrantly has ran out and now all of a sudden I'm having trouble with a single beep which happens randomly. Sometimes I get 3 in an hour, and other times none for 3 hours, its annoying.

 

The beep is high pitched and short. I also think I heard a curious sound coming from the left handside of the notebook, like a grinding or something... I aint sure of exactly what I heard, or if it did come from the notebook, but I'm going to run dskchk and then memtest, as I heard one beep usually indicates memory problems.

 

Has anyone had this problem? and if so, is there a easy solution? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Vince

 

P.s. I'm running XP home Sp2.