To hear it, click the link, make sure you are not muted, and raise the volume. You should hear a series of successive ringing sounds that interrupt each other.
I get the sound on bootup and also other random times. It would not be a big deal except when I am listening to relaxing music or watching a movie, this sound constantly comes up
It has happened on my windows 8 laptops- my thinkpad yoga and my hp envy 4
I have never heard that sound from any of my Win 8 computers. It may be coming from an application you have installed or something to do with a peripheral of yours. Maybe some messaging program notifying you that you have a message or something like that.
Home built i7-8700K, Hp Envy x360 EVO Laptop, MS Surface Pro 7
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3.7Ghz Core i7-8700K, 11th Gen Core i7-1165G7 4.7Ghz, 10th Gen Core™ i5-1035G4 1.1Ghz
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ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming, HP, MS
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16G, 8G, 8G
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AMD Radeon RX580, Intel Iris X Graphics, Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4
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ATI High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
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Dual Samsung U32J59 32 inch monitors, 13.3" display, 12.3" display
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3840x2160 (Desktop), 1920x1080 (laptop), 2736x1824 Pro 7
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500GB ssd boot drive with 2 & 10TB Data (Desktop), 512GB ssd (laptop), 128GB SSD (tablet)
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Corsair CX 750M
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Antec 100
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Coolermaster CM 212+
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IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
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Microsoft IntelliMouse
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665Mbps/15Mbps down/up
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FireFox, MS Edge
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Defender on all
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First. no idea what kind of computer you have there and if the sounds are coming from speakers ? It may be coming from BIOS alerting you of some malfunction on MB, overheating, fans not working etc.
In control panel, open "change system sounds". Go through each item with an assigned sound and click the test button to find the sound you are asking about. That may give a hint as to what is making the sound, and you could also change that assignment to "none" to silence it.
I also have never heard that from any computer. You don't show your computer in My System Specs so maybe the computer is very new and as mentioned could be a BIOS alert.
I'll try these things but first I'd like to also say
That sound that I posted seems to be a repetition of a single ring sound. My guess is that for whatever reason the laptop is repeating a sound that is only supposed to happen once.
In fact sometimes I only hear one ring sound. And I am pretty confident that at least one of you has heard the single ring version if not the multiple one that I am getting. The sound when in a single ring sounds like a sound a laptop would make after an action has been completed.
My first guess was that it was dropbox or google drive telling me that a file had been uploaded since that would explain the multiple rings in succession but I wasn't sure how to test that hypothesis.