Here's a 5 second clip demonstrating the bizarre beeping sound.
In any case, even if you don't tell it to Stop it will not start up again as long as you put it to Disabled under Startup. I should mention that when I click the Stop button it won't let me change the Startup dropdown item to Disabled, so change the dropdown item to Disabled first. Here's what you do to fix it:ģ) Under the ' View' dropdown in the menu, enable Show hidden devicesĤ) Expand the Non-Plug and Play Drivers categoryħ) Under Startup change the dropdown to DisabledĨ) Optionally: click the Stop button as well
It was the result of a system driver called beep.sys.