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Hello, Mick. |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 10:03:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Where is the beep coming from? |
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> > > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & |
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> > > Notifications or similar in your DE. |
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> > > That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been |
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> > > in pc's since the first one? |
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> > Am I unusual in not having such a speaker in either of my boxes? |
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> No, modern PCs don't always have an internal speaker fitted, although the |
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> MoBos have terminals to connect a piezoelectric speaker to. They are/were |
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> useful for BIOS error messages, but I am not sure if modern UEFI firmware |
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> produces error code beeps when things go wrong - I haven't fitted a speaker to |
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> mine. |
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My 6 year old motherboard, according to its documentation (I've never |
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tried it out), produces a code of beeps when it detects errors such as no |
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keyboard being found at boot up. I think no monitor being found also |
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produces a beep code. A loudspeaker in the box is the _only_ way a |
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motherboard has of reporting such errors. |
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"Modern" UEFI firmware not reporting such errors, if such be the case, |
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would be one of the reasons for me to depise UEFI as I do. Why do I need |
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UEFI? A traditional BIOS can boot my machine just fine, and the sole |
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purpose of UEFI seems to be to prevent OS's which aren't Microsoft |
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Windows from booting, and to brick certain Samsung laptops. |
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Indeed, on The Register the other day, in a comments sections, somebody |
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described how he had a dual boot GNU/Linux Windows setup, and after a |
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Windows update, the GNU/Linux wouldn't boot at all. He suspected that |
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the Windows update had tampered with the UEFI CMOS settings somehow. |
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Do modern motherboards still allow you the option of running under the |
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traditional BIOS? I've not seen this mentioned in any of the motherboard |
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descriptions recently. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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