Rich Harran. wrote: > > When you turn on your computer, it should make a beep noise through the > internal speaker as the BIOS initialises (POST). This is so you know it > has started correctly, for example if your monitor fails. If you do not > get any sort of sound at start up, the speaker may be broken, or > disconnected. If you don't mind doing this, take the case off your > computer, and check the connection between the speaker and the motherboard > - there should probably be a pair of thin plastic-coated wires going via a > little plastic plug to two metal prongs somewhere around the edge of the > motherboard: check nothing has come loose or is broken. > > It is possible (unlikely?) that your Bios doesn't beep to say everything > is ok on start-up, but it definitely should if something is wrong. You > could try taking out your graphics card (if you haven't turned the > computer off by now, do so, and take precautions against static dischage), > and then re-starting your computer. If the speaker is working, there will > be loads of beeps, as the bios tells you it can't find the primary video > (I've heard the knew ACME bios avoids all this noise by printing an > informative error message on the screen!).
I would suggest just unplugging the keyboard to force a bios failure. > If your speaker isn't working, I wouldn't worry about the cost of > replacing it, as the ones supplied with PC's are invariably cheap crappy > ones, and you should be able to get one for around a fiver (english > money). The one I have in my computer was bastardised from a broken > cheap radio. > > Hope some of this helps, or at least makes sense. If the speaker is > working physically, I can't think of any debian stuff which would use it, > but if you've got dos installed, most games will use it.
