8740w chirp?

joleme

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Hi all,

I have an hp 8740w laptop, and over the past few months it has been making a strange noise. The laptop will all of a sudden make a *chirp* noise.

Sometimes it can go a few hours/days/weeks and it won't do it.

I have tried leaving it unplugged, plugged, without the wireless mouse it usually has connected, with the mouse, low power settings/brightness and vice versa.

It almost seems entirely random, and I have tried searching for as many combinations of 'chirp, beep, noise' I can think of and I haven't seen anyone else with the issue.

I don't think its a head crash, because I've heard that before, and this noise sounds distinctly electronic.

I don't suppose anyone else has heard of this or possibly had this happen? I can take it apart and all, but I really loathe taking hp laptops apart just to take it apart and hope it makes the noise that particular day.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!