Motherboard "BEEP" Has Replaced Windows Sound

[hech54]

You know when you close down Outlook Express(for example)...and it annoyingly keeps bugging you with a pop-up type message about compacting messages/e-mail to save disc space?....well that Windows event sound is now replaced with the standard Motherboard BEEP. The only thing I did recently was allow Avast to update to the new 5.0 version(with the woman's voice instead of the guys voice)...

How do I start to fix that?

[redwudz]

'Control Panel>Sound>Sounds' If it's a non-MS program sound, it may be near the bottom of the list. I don't see Outlook Express there probably as I don't use it, but it will likely be on your list. I killed the Avast 'voice' entirely as it would blast out when I had my sound system cranked up.

You can also turn off the Windows intro and exit sounds there if desired. Or change them to just about anything you want.

The 'beep' is the default sound when nothing has been selected. You can also change it to about anything.

[hech54]

I reset it to Windows Default earlier...no change.
Just checked...Outlook Express is not in the list.
Any way to turn the motherboard beep off?

[aedipuss]

check you m.b. bios but probably not without disconnecting the wires from the speaker to the m.b.

you might try choosing a windows audio theme that changes all sounds. then maybe try no sounds if you don't like it.

[redwudz]

Are you sure the 'beep' is coming from the MB speaker? If so, it's probably signaling a more critical problem. The MB beep is usually reserved for MB problems, not software.

[jagabo]

When there is no audio card Windows resorts to using the speaker on the motherboard. If you have audio but the motherboard beeps your audio device isn't working. Maybe you just need to reinstall the drivers.

[roma_turok]

If you're running Microsoft Windows you can disable the Internal speaker or PC speaker by following the below steps.

• Open Device Manager
• In Device Manager click View and click "Show hidden devices"
• This should make "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" visible in Device Manager.
• Expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers by clicking the plus and double-click Beep.
• Within the "Beep properties" window click the Driver tab.
• Under the driver tab if you wish to temporarily disable this device click the Stop button. If you wish to permanently disable this device under the Startup Type select Disabled.

from : http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000725.htm

[hech54]

There was no "device" to not function....that is the strange part. The MB beep only happened when closing down Outlook Express @ the "compact messages" popup type of thing.

Anyway....I woke up this morning, coffee in hand.....looking for a fight but the problem seems to have healed itself overnight. Opened and closed Outlook Express 3 times so for and.....back to normal.

Thank you everyone for trying to help.

[hech54]

I still wanna know how an MB beep can replace a Windows Event sound.....

[roma_turok]

Can you ex plane what mean by "There was no "device" to not function...." ?

[hech54]

Can you ex plane what mean by "There was no "device" to not function...." ?

Sure....Outlook Express is not a "device". The MB beep ONLY occurred when shutting down Outlook Express.

[Poppa_Meth]

But the sound card can malfunction. That's the device we are talking about. I've seen a sound card have corrupted drivers and then the card won't work right so the OS resorts to using the Mobo speaker for certain sounds. If it was only doing it in Outlook and all other sound worked then that a bit on the odd side.

[roma_turok]

Can you ex plane what mean by "There was no "device" to not function...." ?

Sure....Outlook Express is not a "device". The MB beep ONLY occurred when shutting down Outlook Express.

I only suggest to turn off motherboard beep in windows.

[hech54]

If it was only doing it in Outlook and all other sound worked then that a bit on the odd side.

That's exactly what it was doing.....ODD indeed. Everything else worked perfectly. Was watching videos and playing music all the while the MB was beeping when shutting OE down.
To me...a MB beep is either a hardware error or hardware event(like when my MB beeps when the computer starts to find the drives when I first fire up the computer)....that's what had me scratching my head too....

[valvehead]

My guess is that there is a unique sound that Windows is supposed to play when OE closes. If that sound file is missing or corrupted, Windows may resort to the beep.

Is there a sound setting dialog within OE itself?

[hech54]

Is there a sound setting dialog within OE itself?

I searched all through OE and found nothing. Even though the problem healed itself mysteriously
I'm still going to keep looking for a cause.

[hech54]

It's back today....

[inept]

I know this thread is 6 months old.

This might be a stretch but, after seeing the statement about the AVAST upgrade I upgraded mine and the tower speaker beep went away.

I hope the upgrade fixed it and I never hear it again.