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On 23 Dec 2003 13:23:03 -0600, Alan Hicks <1001298936@ettin.custom-consulting.com> wrote:
> That's messed up! What if you don't have speakers, or the onboard sound
> card dies, or the power isn't plugged up for your speakers on boot-up?
> I'd hate to have to hook up external speakers to my sound card just to
> debug the motherboard. I'd bitch to the manufacturer about that.

AFAIK, it uses an onboard speaker. If not, headphones and computer
speakers are very cheap.

Such a thing is useful for hardware diagnostics. If you've never
ordered all the parts for a system, assembled them, then had the system
not power up, you may not realize BIOS beep codes just plain *SUCK* ...
they're never the same from one manufacturer to another and only about
*three* are documented *anywhere*....

A speaking setup makes far more sense... no cryptic beeps to decipher.
If the built-in sound chip fails, odds are more than just that has
failed on the board... it's a bit rare to have half a motherboard die
while the other half functions properly.

Without this, how are you going to debug the board at all?

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