Yeah!

I had this problem too. My computer started making the noise right at midnight. I have XPS-R450. I upgraded the BIOS to A13 and no change. When I roll the clock back for the changeover it still beeps. I am thinking this has to be a peripherial problem.

I bought the computer in Jan 99 and it is listed as Y2K compliant, but this is strange.

It does this even in DOS and it will lock up there.

What the heck is going on here Dell?

Paul.

I didn't have any problem with my new Dell T600 but I also notice a very different look too. I use Microsoft web page when I boot on the Web. I have my own stocks listed on that page. That page indicated I had suddenly became very rich too. The negative indicaters were indicated by red but had a + plus symbol in front of them instead of the - or the negative symbol. This was all last night and is all better this morning?

I'm glad to know we aren't the only ones having the "noise" problem. It must be in the Dell somewhere because my Toshiba notebook didn't have the problem. I e-mailed Dell. I'm looking forward to the answer.

Hehe...Dell XPS 300...no problem. I was in the middle of a Half-Life game when it rolled over. At that exact point I had fragged someone. To my benefit.......:)

Travis Hellmer

Mine was purchased in Dec 98, received in Jan 99.
From other posts in this thread it seems to occur with XPS R series computers purchased around Jan 99. I've e-mailed Dell about this. Luckily, the problem seems to be easily solved, like not having the computer on when the date rolls over to 2000.

I had the same problem with my R450 which was also purchased in January of '99. Let's see what else the systems have in common:

- Turtle Beach sound
- Winmodem (I think this is the culprit)
- 3COM NIC
- TNT Vid Card (the dell STB 4400)
- proprietary SCSI card for UMAX scanner
- MS Sidewinder PRO joystick (USB)

Why do I think the Winmodem is the culprit?
- popped the case and isolated the sound to the area of the cards.
- looked at Norton System Doctor and the CPU was at 100% utilization.

Then the system locked up and I was forced to reboot. which seems to have solved the problem.

Any ideas??



Dave

What mine shipped with:
- Turtle Beach Montego II sound
- USR 56K ISA Voice modem (not Winmodem)
- 16MB TnT AGP video
- DVD decoder card

Added later:
- Netgear NIC
- SoHo products NIC

We've got different modems, so I doubt that is the problem. I didn't pop the case, I just listened to isolate the source as to speakers, monitor or box. I had believed it was coming from the internal speaker. It's possible the modem speaker was the problem.

I just re-booted to end the problem and everything seems to be fine now.

Robert

Same here.

That is my config, ISA USR modem, no winmodem.
Same video
Same sound
DVD decoder

and added later PCI Intel Express Nic.

I did not open the case either to isolate the sound, but it sure sounded like it was from the internal speaker of the computer - not the modem.

I could be mistaken.

Paul.

I've had mine since Feb/16 of 99 with no problems.
But that file which was suppose to be taken off called( RTC.CLK ) just might have something to do with it. A fix was to be put in called fix2000.exe. Now it's not suppose to have anything to do with the new systems but was said it wouldn't hurt to do this. I did and have had no problems. Also it was told to all people to have their computers off when the clock went around and it's ironic the amount of people who just had to have their computers on when 2000 came in." WOW!!! Amazing is what it is.

Love my Dell
UJFBL
Dell Dimension XPS R400 Petium ll, 384MB 100Mz SDRAM. Sony 200ES,
14.4 GB Ultra ATA,DH,(7,200 RPM) & 10.1 GB Ultra ATA,HD(7,200) Win/98 (ISDN 128K)
Altec Lansing ADA 880 Dolby Digital, Turtle beach Montegoll A3D 320V.
No McAfee or NortonXXX
A Comcrap Presario 4540 (Door Stop) does good job keeps door open.

Chris B
cbbc5@dellmail.com