Gamecube boot-up sound (?)

[Guest_NeoBahamut]

Hello

I�ve had my Gamecube for a couple of years now and everything�s been smooth and nice with it. However, just recently I�m hearing strange sounds when booting up the system. It won�t start unless the lid is closed (it happens only right after that, or when the power button is pushed, and then no more during playtime) and it sounds like a small motor, which most likely gets us the laser motor, right? It seems as if it�s going two distances and then starts reading the disc. Usually the laser only goes small distances and make small pitched sounds, but this is more like a long murmur. Heh, maybe I�m paranoid, but I�m pretty sure I haven�t heard it before.. Should I worry?

Your source of irrelevant questions,
Jon

[atom]

The defective gamecube i bought from Sam Goody made a light beeping type noise when booting up, then went to an error screen. I cant tell you about a murmur. Do you have a gamebit? I would make sure your fans and cd drive are clean.

Other then that, start saving up for a new one. Hey, consider yourself lucky, broken gamecubes are super rare.

[Vertigo]

The light beeping noise you're hearing is the machine reading the boot code on the disc.
If you listen closely to your PS it does the same thing but in a lower pitch. Most disc systems have an audible boot recognition, I believe this is because it's an audio track, most of the time.
My GC works fine and does the light beep and also the motor spin-up sound.
Other than those two things, your GC sounds fucked.

[bcforn64]

The Dreamcast also has an audible bootup beep, pretty loud too. I have EL Wire in my DC and upon boot the recognition causes the lights to temperarily flash off, pretty cool load up, if I do say so myself.  B)

[NFG]

The Dreamcast also has an audible bootup beep

Isn't this the VMU saying "My battery's dead, yo!"?

[Endymion]

If you hear a beep coming from the VMU, yeah that's what it means. But there is a very audible beep that comes from the unit itself, I got to know it well for switching games to VGA mode.