No luck yet. I opened the PC last night. I could not find a speaker anywhere, even a tiny one. It does beep when restarted, so I can only assume there is one of the motherboard speakers referred to below, but it must be hidden under something else.
See below for further comments. > A retry dialog box is a windows event, and any sound it makes will be = > coming out of the speakers attached to the PC and not the motherboard = > speaker, so disconnecting the motherboard speaker will not have any = > effect. These days, the motherboard speaker only makes a sound when the = > pc is powered up. Noted. > You should be able to either turn the volume down on your speakers The volume was already down at the lowest setting. > unplug them, Couldn't find them >or even better, if you have a small speaker on the bottom > right edge of your screen, near the clock, you can click on that and = > click the mute button. Not there. Can it be found somewhere else e.g. from Start menu ? > There is also a sounds section in the control panel where a mute option = > should also be available. That's what I covered in the original post. Everything that can be turned down or off already has. And the sound still persists. > Regards > > Darren Tracey > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Eugene Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:47 AM > > To: CFAussie Mailing List > > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT : How to turn sounds off > >=20 > >=20 > > Open your PC up. There is a cable (usually red and black)=20 > > running from the=20 > > little speaker in your case to the motherboard. Just pull it=20 > > out of the=20 > > motherboard. That's it. > >=20 > > cheers > > Eugene Gorman > > 07 3369 6003 > > http://www.velvetsystems.com > >=20 > > At 11:27 AM 10/16/2003 +1000, you wrote: > > >I like a quiet PC. > > > > > >My new PC has Win2000 Professional. > > > > > >I stepped through all the sounds under Sounds And Multimedia=20 > > and selected > > >none on all (including defaults) > > > > > >I then tried No Sounds schema. > > > > > >But still it beeps e.g. when a "retry" dialogue box comes up (e.g. to > > >refresh a page with a form). I find this extremely annoying. > > > > > >Ideally, I'd like the PC to either be quiet except for when=20 > > a new email > > >arrives, or entirely quiet. > > > > > >Is the only certain way to disconnect the speaker wire ? > > > > > >--- > > >You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to=20 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ > >=20 > >=20 > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to=20 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >=20 > > MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ > >=20 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
