ASUS P6X58D-E - BEEPs in spurts. Computer boots and works fine. Need help diagnosing.

[conticreative]

Lately, my computer has been booting up fine, working fine and as fast as ever, but it has been beeping continuously in spurts. Then it will go quiet for a while, only to start again a bit later. In a day, I'll experience 4 or 5 "episodes" like that, where the beeps come fast and furious, then go away.

The beep pattern seems to be all over the place. Sometimes I count 5, sometimes 4 beeps, sometimes a pattern of 2-3-1 and so on, but the most frequent is a beep pattern of 4 shorts, repeated shortly after.
I have a recording of this.

Beep Recording (option 1) http://vocaroo.com/i/s1wyE6eu0sAS

Beep Recording (option 2)
https://soundcloud.com/marco-conti-855534754/mobo-beeps

NOTE: I have researched beep patterns for the past few weeks. Most, with the same or similar patterns and a similar or same MOBO, won't boot at all. I don't have that problem.
However, it will go on like this for 15 minutes until it stops and will do it again 3 hours later. I am this close from yanking the little speaker out of the case and take my chances.

My workstation has been serving me faithfully for the past 6 years plus. The only components still original from the day I bought it are:

CPU: Intel Core i7 970 - HexaCore Intel Core i7, 3333 MHz (25 x 133)
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E MOBO Chipset:Intel Tylersburg X58, Intel Westmere)
Case: CoolerMaster HAF 932 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black
RAM: 6 GB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Dominator (I added 3 new sticks a few years back for a total of 12 GB)
Everything else has been upgraded, but not very recently. In other words, the beeping either preceded or happened long past the Hard drive or Video Card replacements I made.

It has gotten so bad, that after researching the Mobo Beep codes for days, and making no sense of them, I unplugged and plugged back every cable, connector on the machine I could track down (save for the CPU and its liquid cooling system).


Below are my current, complete specs:

Field Value
Computer Type ACPI x64-based PC
Operating System Windows 10 Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 1
Case CoolerMaster HAF 932 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black


Motherboard & CPU
CPU Type HexaCore Intel Core i7 970 3200MHz / 3333 MHz (25 x 133)
CPU Cooling: Corsair H80iGT Liquid Cooling (News as of 15/12/30)
Motherboard Name Asus P6X58D-E
Motherboard Chipset Intel Tylersburg X58, Intel Westmere
System Memory 12279 MB (DDR3-1333 SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (05/25/10)
Network Adapter: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4095 MB)
Monitor 1: 24" Sceptre E246W-1080P 60Hz E246W-1080 (200816843009)
Monitor 2: 24" Asus VG248QE 1080p 3D ready 144Hz (F5LMQS108341)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC889 @ High Definition Audio Controller [10DE-0FBB] [NoDB]
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC889 @ Intel 82801JB ICH10 - High Definition Audio Controller
Audio USB: Sabrent USB audio card AU-EMCB

Storage
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Storage Controller VMLite Virtual Disk SCSI Storport Adapter

Disk Drive 1 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (465 GB)
Disk Drive 2 Toshiba HDWE140 (3726.0 GB) SATA Gen 3, 6Gbps [X6MFKGOFF58D]
Disk Drive 3 Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001-9YN164 (1863 GB) (Failing, soon to be removed)
Disk Drive 4 HGST HMS5C4040ALE640 (3726 GB)

Optical Drive DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Optical Drive Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S ATA Device

 

[RARRAF]

well the beeps are telling you the ram is not compatible you have a mixed set in there and the motherboard is telling you its not working together it might register but will not work.

 

[conticreative]

Thank you for the reply. The problem with that is that the RAM was purchased together with the MOBO in 2010, all I did was to add 3 more sticks of the same exact kind a year later.

After that, everything has been working great until a few months ago, when the beeps started sporadically.

I am tending more toward the RAM having failed that being incompatible.

The other bizarre issue is that I have removed the 4 pin MOBO's speaker, it's sitting on my desk, yet, it still beeps with the same exact tone. I checked, and my case doesn't have a speaker attached. Temps are fine, yet the beeps continue.

My rig is still very fast and reliable. I tested it against much newer i7 based rigs some of my friends bought in the past year, and I am very close in performance to theirs. Nothing I could really measure in regular use.

Ideally, I'd like to keep what I have for a bit longer until some new tech comes out that really makes a difference.

Thank you again. This has been very frustrating.

 

[RARRAF]

I am sorry fir the late reply but had no internet till now in Thailand terrible internet / the only thing that I cold think of that might help with the ram is upping the voltage only a fraction 0,001 or 0,01 or it could be a bios update is required

 

[conticreative]

Thank you again for the reply. I did as you suggested, but at the same time I went after another lead that occiurred to me now, but that I should have thought of much sooner.

As I wrote before, I yanked the speaker off the MOBO, so even if the MOBO was going to catch on fire, it shouldn't have been able to beep.

There had to be another speaker.

Sure enough, I looked on the back of my NZXT SEN-001LX Sentry LX Aluminum dual bay fan controller and there is a tiny speaker there.

A bit more research and I discovered that this unit beeps a lot. There are pages of posts about "Why does my NZXT SEN-001LX Sentry LX beeps all the time?" and so on.

Needle nose plyers took care of that and I have been beep free ever since. The other option was to set the Fan Controller on "Manual" which is a really bad idea and makes my computer sound like a hovercraft.

Why did it start beeping now? Who knows, but my temps are doing fine. I'll check all the connections, but I don;t want to hear another beep from that fan controller.

Thank you again for the answer.