My computer has been making a strange "bleep" sound (edit: since I posted this I found out that the name of the sound is windows xp information bar.wav) every FOUR to five
minutes for the past several days. It makes the sound whether or not I
am connected to the Internet, although I noticed while I was on dial up
connection that the NOISE did not start until after I had signed online
that DAY. Even after I signed off, however, the noise CONTINUED. Now I
am on a cable Internet connection, and it makes the noise every four to
five minutes after I turn the computer on. The screen saver will run
for approximately two minutes while I'm not using the computer, and then
when the computer makes the "bleep" sound, it returns to the regular
screen. My computer is set to go on standby after about 20 minutes or so,
and it will sometimes go to standby. The times it goes to standby are
the only time the "bleep" noise stops. I have run Adaware, run McAfee
virus scans, run AOL spyware detector, defragmented the computer, and
performed disk clean up multiple times since the noise started, and they
have not helped. What can I do???

Tell us more about this bleep sound. Tell us more about your SYSTEM specs.I'm really not much of a computer expert, so I don't know what "system specs" means, but I looked up in the control panel under the list of sounds, and it's the one called

windows xp information bar.wavOS? Processor type and speed? make and model of computer? RAM?
do you have: extra video card? sound card? AV card?
What solutions have you attempted?
What do malware scans show?Ok, I don't know what all of that stuff is. I have a Dell Desktop Computer with a Pentium Processor--I think it's Pentium 3 or 4. I have no extra sound cards or video cards or AV Cards. The malware scans don't show much of anything--I have no viruses, and the spyware that is found is just the occasional low threat level stuff that normally appears.