Beep on My Computer screen

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Operating system is Windows XP Professional XP2

If I choose My Computer and then using the mouse right-click on the Hard
Drive Seagate Barracuda 80Mb the system speaker (I think - it's in the base
unit) beeps at a rate of about 2 beeps a second.

Closing the context menu stops the beeping.

The same beeping occurs occassionally elsewhere, eg a short duration of
beeping occurs when using My Computer - Find information about the hardware
installed on this computer.

Running the Seagate diagnostics on the machine reports no problems with disk
or controller.

Does the beeping indicate a problem?
What is the beeping trying to tell me?
Is it some software alert?

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