F7: Enabling PC speaker

[Tim]

Mikkel:
>> Is the sound card on his system build into the motherboard? If so
>> try enable the pc speaker setting in your mixer of choice, and make
>> sure it isn't muted. Some systems with built-in sound route the
>> speaker output through the sound card. (I have one - every thing
>> except the POST beeps goes through the sound card.

Tim Largy:
> Hmmm, are you saying that on some hardware, the PC speaker is a real
> transducer but is coupled to the sound processor in some way? I know
> that this box has a real transducer, and that it is capable of
> beeping.

One one of my systems the motherboard beeper didn't get used for beeping
once the system booted past a certain stage.  The traditional CTRL+G
"bell" noise was a sound sample played through the sound card, rather
than beeping the beeper.

I've another that does both.  Getting the motherboard to beep makes both
the beeper beep, and a tone to go through the sound card.

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