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My pc keeps beeping at me whilst I am learnging some tricky program and it is driving me nuts! Muting the sound does not help. How do I stop it?

Jul 5th, 2008 02:43
Taksh Verdhan, dman, i can do it, Sakir Ali, foo bar, Kalu Ral, Tom Midgley, Simon Massey, http://sturly.com

The system beep does not go via the sound card so you cannot mute it 
using the normal software volume controls. The system beep does not go 
via the normal sound system so that motherboard can give you coded 
beep 
sequences when it cannot boot at all. This is very useful when you are 
doing your own hardware upgrades. Different boards give out different 
beeps so if you have not kept the manuals you should download and 
print 
them before you attempt an upgrade so that you can follow the trouble 
shooting guide when the beeping starts. 
The problem arises in that some software (particularly old stuff) 
likes 
to beep at you when it does not understand a command by calling the 
system beep command rather than playing you a little wav through the 
sound card. This can drive you and your friends/family/workmates/boss 
totally nuts. 
The way around this is to disconnect the little lead that attaches the 
beeping speaker from the motherboard. You should only do this if your 
box boots normally and you are getting to the point where pulling the 
plug on the beep would really make your day. 
You should assume that you will forget that you did this and could end 
up in trouble if you do have a genuine hardware problem that 
motherboard beeps would help you to solve. To get around this leave a 
post-it note inside your computer saying words to the effect of "you 
unplugged the beep because you hated him. perhaps if you are back in 
here looking to fix a problem you should reconnect the beep so that 
your motherboard can talk to you in coded beeps". 
;)
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