I have been getting a double bleep intermittently when using FS2020. Perhaps every 20 minutes or so.

It is neither a USB disonnecting and reconnecting, nor keys being pressed which are the solutions a Google search threw up.

I thought it was related to Nvidea experience, so I have uninstalled everything Nvidea related in the control panel except the Nvidea graphics driver. I do still have Nvidea control settings installed.

Any ideas what this is, and how to get rid of it?

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by WestEnd

One thing it could be is a hardware fault if the double bleep is coming from the motherboard.  Sometimes a warning of overheating or a fan / cooling system not working properly.
MSFS will find these issues out as it is very intensive on everything - GPU, CPU, and even RAM.

You will need to find the exact make of your motherboard and find the manual on line for it.  The beep codes are normally at the back of the manual.

 

Ignore - Double post.

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by bobcat999

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

One thing it could be is a hardware fault if the double bleep is coming from the motherboard.  Sometimes a warning of overheating or a fan / cooling system not working properly.
MSFS will find these issues out as it is very intensive on everything - GPU, CPU, and even RAM.

You will need to find the exact make of your motherboard and find the manual on line for it.  The beep codes are normally at the back of the manual.

 

Possibly. 

I downloaded the motherboard manual, but it was 550 pages of what, to me, is mainly gobbledygook. There was a BIOS update available so I have done that to see if it helps.

I upgraded my motherboard, RAM and CPU a few months ago to close to the best I could buy, and I had issues after the rebuild with the PC restarting itself when gaming, either FS2020, or P3D. 

After buying a new PSU, I only had the PC restart itself when gaming once, when I had Intel's auto overclock on. I havn't used any overclocking before or since.  Maybe that means that currently my PC is running close to the max temperature with FS2020, and will restart itself when either P3D or FS2020 is running if I have any kind of overclock. I haven't been getting this double beep with P3D or DCS just now with no overclock.

I was planning to look into getting more fans, and ensuring they are set up most effectively for getting cold air in, and getting hot air out. The guy I use for hardware installations also said I should get a CPU water cooler with 3 fans as the one I bought with the new hardware only has one fan, albeit it was not cheap.

Perhaps the new hardware gives off more heat than my old setup did.

I've noticed the last couple of weeks FS2020 would start stuttering sometimes after I've been using it for a while, albeit I thought it was because I was changing aircraft and locations doing circuits etc. Maybe the stuttering is a performance issue as the PC gets hot.

I agree it sounds like a heat issue. I would suspect your thermal paste or whatever you used is not applied properly. I have found this is a frequent cause of overheating.

Before you go tearing things apart, you might run a stress test on your system and see if you get beeps.

https://techguided.com/best-tools-to-stress-test-p-cpu-ram-gpu/

 

I will try that, thanks. I did loads of tests on the RAM, CPU and GPU when my PC was restarting itself and they all showed that they were ok.

That's why I bought the new PSU, as there didn't seem to be anything wrong with the other components going by the tests.

Hey - could you list your cpu, and gpu? Then download hwinfo (https://www.hwinfo.com/), run MSFS and wait until the beeps start. Once you've heard a beep, look at hwinfo and report back on the maximum reported temperature of your CPU and GPU.  Also what wattage is your PSU?

We can then figure out if your temps are above spec for your components. It's also possible they'll be within spec but under clocking to keep temps down. Either way we'll be able to see if you're pushing up against a limit.

The fact your PC restarted could be nothing (i.e a software crash), but it could also imply your PSU is not up to the job. It's also possible you missed a power cable when hooking up your CPU. There's an extra slot for some CPUs to be used when overclocking.

Hard to say for sure without more info. Let's get those temps back first and we can figure it out from there.

 

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by Bigbluss

I will download that, thanks.

My CPU is Intel Core i9 13900KS, S 1700, Raptor Lake, 24 Cores, 32 Threads, 3.2GHz, 6.0GHz Turbo

My GPU is EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 ULTRA GAMING 24GB GDDR6X Ray-Tracing Graphics Card, 10496 Core, 1395MHz, 1725MHz Boost

2 minutes ago, WestEnd said:

I will download that, thanks.

My CPU is Intel Core i9 13900KS, S 1700, Raptor Lake, 24 Cores, 32 Threads, 3.2GHz, 6.0GHz Turbo

My GPU is EVGA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 ULTRA GAMING 24GB GDDR6X Ray-Tracing Graphics Card, 10496 Core, 1395MHz, 1725MHz Boost

Very nice system - power hungry too! Could you share your PSU wattage please 

This is the new one I bought when i had the restarting issue after upgrading other components.

1200W Corsair RM1200x SHIFT, PCIe 5.0 Fully Modular, 80PLUS Gold, 140mm Fan, ATX 3.0 PSU 7JVYG

 

 

5 minutes ago, WestEnd said:

This is the new one I bought when i had the restarting issue after upgrading other components.

1200W Corsair RM1200x SHIFT, PCIe 5.0 Fully Modular, 80PLUS Gold, 140mm Fan, ATX 3.0 PSU 7JVYG

 

That's a fantastic PSU so all good there then. Right, into the temp checking then 🙂

 

19 minutes ago, Bigbluss said:

Then download hwinfo (https://www.hwinfo.com/), run MSFS and wait until the beeps start. Once you've heard a beep, look at hwinfo and report back on the maximum reported temperature of your CPU and GPU. 

 

I'm afraid I've no idea how I would use that software to find the highest reported temperature.

3 minutes ago, WestEnd said:

I'm afraid I've no idea how I would use that software to find the highest reported temperature.

I think I see it under sensors

That's the one. You should see it for CPU and gpu (gpu will also show one called hotspot, also useful). Feel free just to screen shot the info if you're not sure which is which!