From: me@somewhere.invalid
Dallas wrote:
>On 9/5/2022 2:13 PM, MikeS wrote:
>> On 05/09/2022 20:02, MikeS wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2022 18:01, Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>>> I have a program that sets alarms, and as well as displaying a message
>>>> at the set date/time it is capable of playing a sound track (.WAV
>>>> file).
>>>>
>>>> But that sound only plays if my speakers are switched on.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a command prompt or batch file that will 'beep' the internal
>>>> 'sounder'? There always was one that got activated to tell you of a
>>>> serious fault when failing to boot-up, so I'm hoping that still exists
>>>> in modern PCs?
>>>>
>>> It still exists at least on most desktop motherboards but you need very
low level programming to
>>> access it. Long ago Microsoft or somebody wrote a beeper driver (probably
using interupts) for
>>> that purpose but it needed "real" MSDOS to obtain direct access to the
hardware. I doubt you can
>>> do that with a command prompt or MSDOS emulator running under modern
Windows because you are too
>>> isolated from the hardware.
>>
>> This may be the driver I remembered:
>> https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=34380
>
>We do take for granted that our PC will have a sound card these days.
>
>I remember pretty clearly installing a BEEP.EXE program on a MSDOS system on
a desktop that did not
>have a sound card. And then wiring in a potentiometer on a knob to adjust
the volume of the
>internal speaker (beeper).
>
>That was a long long time ago.
True. My old XP PC now doing duty in my shed/workshop has a
transducer, and its documented beeps were useful diagnostics on
several occasions.
So on modern PCs are you saying that ALL types of failure can now be
indicated by either the monitor or sound card via external speaker?
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