inGearX
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clubs:   |  How to make system beep
How can one induce a system beep - coming from the internal system motherboard speaker?
Preferably via a command line...
Thank you... |
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KiZiller
@rr.com | If you have a BASIC interpreter just enter "beep" and it will. |
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McSummation
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Round Rock, TX | reply to inGearX
To make the ^G, hold down the Alt key and type 007 on the key pad. |
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nemo1966
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England
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September 30th, @11:20AM
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The Beep() function doesnt work on many newer PCs.
see here:
»www.eggheadcafe.com/software/asp···ent.aspx
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inGearX
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said by McSummation  :[code] echo ^G [/code] To make the ^G, hold down the Alt key and type 007 on the key pad. nice
thank you |
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Mele20
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Where in that thread does it say that the PC speaker doesn't work? The OP never actually came back to report his latest findings. He has beep in the bios. He has a PC speaker. So, how did you deduce from that thread that Beep "doesn't work on many newer PCs"? If Beep doesn't work then how will the user hear error codes on boot?
If I bought a computer that had no PC speaker it would get returned immediately. My antivirus uses Beep. It is essential to have Beep and I don't believe OEMs are no longer installing a system speaker...well maybe Dell, the way they cut every corner they can, is doing that on $299 computers...but how can you even call a piece of junk like that a computer?
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Razzy
join:2002-10-29
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October 1st, @06:49PM
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Damn, we don't hook up PC speakers to our systems we sell. None (we just passed 1,000 system mark) of them returned just because of that.. =p Don't buy from us.. Heck stay away from us 
EDIT: err didn't mean to reply to inGearX, meant for MeleTwenty. |
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI
| Better warn your buyers to not get Avira. Avira uses Beep.
I suppose after 10 years of Dell computers I am simply used to beep codes at boot. 
As for Avira, I can barely hear Avira when it alerts on a virus on this computer and I could barely hear it on my earlier Dell 8300. (These are FP's BTW - didn't want you to think I get tons of viruses). Yet other beeps are quite loud. Avira has just recently been criticized for extremely loud beep on some users computers to the point that although they love Avira they have to uninstall it to save their hearing. Avira has shown no signs yet, at least, of not using Beep. So, in their experience all computers have a PC speaker I guess. Maybe it is just a recent USA thing to not install a PC speaker in independent shops. I don't think Dell is abandoning beeps. Geez, their manuals have pages and pages of what each diagnostic set of beeps means. (Although maybe on their cheapie computers they have abandoned the system speaker...I don't know as I avoid those pieces of junk).
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dave
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said by Mele20 :... but how can you even call a piece of junk like that a computer? Because it can do computations, I suppose ! |
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Grail Knight
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quote:
but how can you even call a piece of junk like that a computer?
Seems to if the computer performs as intended it is not a piece of junk. The lack of a speaker is meaningless to some.
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If I bought a computer that had no PC speaker it would get returned immediately.
Well that is your right but I can tell you that most common issues can be found by using a diagnostics card so having a speaker and beep is not essential in all matters.
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dave
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said by Mele20 : If Beep doesn't work then how will the user hear error codes on boot? The user looks at the diagnostic LEDs, which is a lot easier than trying to count beeps.
OK, so the LEDs are not quite as detailed. On the other hand, it's not clear to me that it's useful to know the difference between "the processor failed" (LEDs off-off-on-off) and "microprocessor register failure" (beep 1-1-2). Either way I have a borked CPU.
»support.dell.com/support/edocs/s···p1114558 |
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jabarnut
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I finally managed to catch this guy and lock him up inside my desktop case...I've got all the "beep beeps" I want now... new computer or old, motherboard speaker or not. 
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avd706
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Mele20
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said by dave :said by Mele20 : If Beep doesn't work then how will the user hear error codes on boot? The user looks at the diagnostic LEDs, which is a lot easier than trying to count beeps. OK, so the LEDs are not quite as detailed. On the other hand, it's not clear to me that it's useful to know the difference between "the processor failed" (LEDs off-off-on-off) and "microprocessor register failure" (beep 1-1-2). Either way I have a borked CPU. Ah...but if the lights are on the back of the machine and the machine sits in an open cabinet in your computer desk...how do you see the lights? I never could see them on my earlier Dells. This current XPS has them on the front which is a big improvement.
If you call Dell tech support, you will be asked for the beep code. Particularly so, now that you get India (or the Phillipine for the XPS). Tech support isn't allowed to think for themselves (and many know nothing about a computer anyway). The screen says they need the beep code so you damn well better know it even if doesn't matter exactly what borked a particular part.
I agree it is not easy to catch the codes sometimes...and it is a good thing the lights are on the front of this computer as the speaker volume is faint. My really old Dell with 98SE has a loud speaker and it is much easier to catch the beep codes on it.
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