Hello all. I've got this old laptop that I am using 'till it won't work anymore, which will hopefully be a while from now. Here's my symptom:

Every so often, there is a 'beep' form somewhere, my guess is that it's coming from the speakers, but I'm not quite sure. It is a strange beep, and it seems that the disk starts chomping when it occurs. I've checked my system performance, and there is a system idle process that is making the processor go from 70% to 99%, off and on. I'm running XP on a pentIII 700 mhz, with 512 ram.

Anyone have a guess as to what's going on, or how I can look into this crazy situation? Thanks, Buford