Re: OT - PC makes odd beeping sound

On 16 July, 10:19, "michael adams" <mjadam...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, you want the be the big clever computer man?

Well given you've poked your nose in, and given the topic is computers
presumably you must think you know what you're talking about too.

In fact I don't think anyone needs to be a "big clever computer man" to realise
that not all beeps are BIOS error codes.

In the absence of a sound card, or if another app is monopolising the sound card
when sounds are turned on then the system will default to "beep" for alerts.

There is no volume control on the beep. There is a volume control on the system
sound but this can be overidden within applications by the applications own
sound control. So its quite possible that the OP had the default system sound
set to mute and set all sound levels within the actual programs.
Because previously no resource conflict occured for the soundcard the muted system
sound operated on alerts when mail arrived in the Outlook box. But obviously nobody
heard it. As soon as an app was run at the same time as Outlook which monopolised
the soundcard and a resource conflict occured the alerts defaulted to beeps which
can always be heard.

Total Recorder has caused the beeps for as long as I can remember, on
both XP and Vista.

The beeps occured when email arrived in Outlook 2000 when TR wasn't in
operation and in both cases the soundcard sound was not muted.

Hence, I'm still none the wiser why it happened.

And what beeps does it do to tell me the various error codes? If the
fan's going, doing it tell me by morse code beeps, or a selection of
tunes like The Yellow Rose of Texas and Sweet Georgie Brown*?

(*I think there's still an ancient arcade basketball game on Blackpool
pier which has that one)
.

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