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Question posted by BOWIEWOWIE on February 5th, 2012

M3970nmakes Strange (beep)sound While Strating Up

My desktop makes a strange (beep) sound while starting up. There's also no connection with the monitor. It's 2 weeks old and i didn't had any problems before.

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