Speaker Integrated onto Motherboard? Shit

[amoralist]

I don't like my computer to make freakin sounds whenever it wants me.
I have disabled sounds in windows.
I have disconnected the speaker from my computer case to the MB.
I have tested it with all my speakers turned off and muted.
Yet windows still can beep me (for instance when a MSN buddy
sends me a message while I'm in another window or when ActiveSynch
synchs with my PDA). I have disabled all the beeps in all the properties.
But you know windows.

So is there a speaker integrated on my motherboard?
I have an Asus A7V266E.

Jason

That kind of title to your topic is going to get you booted from here if you continue.

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[MichaelD]

*looks at postcount* You don't visit very often, huh? You never call. You never send even a little note saying that you're OK, but yet you expect us to jump up an down with joy and HELP you whenever you decide to grace us w/your presence, hmmm?

Oh. Ok then.

When you first press the power button to turn it on, do you hear any beeps? If so, you have a speaker on the mobo. I don't have your mobo, nor do I know anyone that does, so I'm just being Captain Obvious here.

It's me.

 

[BatmanNate]

The title to your thread would make an excellent opening for a Snoop Dogg song.

Shiiaaatt...

 

[amoralist]

Yeah bro. I am so abusive. I prefer to read theregus.com and theinquirer.net and stuff.

But when I have a problem or want to find out a release date, it's anandtech all the way.

At least I check the posts in case people put answers.

But I pretty much know that it's the motherbaord. I'm a little surprised.

But what I need is a SOLUTION, not some wisecracks and a restatement of what I think already...

Jason

 

[MichaelD]

So, Mr. Abusive; if you already KNOW that it's the mobo making the noise, WTH are you asking? Duh.

Seriously, mobo speakers are about the diameter of a quarter and about 1/2-inch high. They have a visible metal center inside a round, plastic case. Why do you want a completely silent PC anyway? Some sounds (like that mobo beep on boot) are very useful and informative.

 

[McCarthy]

Yup, look on the motherboard for a little black plastic device that looks like an out of place bottlecape with a hole in the top. If you're the soldering type, easy enough to fix - just desolder it and take it off. If you're not, well a dab of glue in the hole will cut it's sound output by a great deal. Used to do that with annoying modems, but it didn't make them completely silent, just real quiet.

 

[Gunbuster]

did you disabled the sound card in windows, that will make the MB speaker take over and beep

 

[vetteguy]

Easy:
Enable sound in Windows
Mute sound in taskbar

That should get rid of sound without Windows going to your system speaker.

 

[Dolemite76]

nail on the head vette guy... hehe...

 

[Auric]

The mobo speaker can have its plastic cap pulled off to remove the metal disc. It does not need to be desoldered.