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skookum
Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: Getting rid of the beep! |
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| Hi, we have a IBM thinkpad laptop with Windows 95. I have managed to set it to stop beeping during the course of various operations while the computer is running. But, is there any way to eliminate the beeps when I turn the device on or off, or when I plug it into electricity. (It wakes up my sweetie when this happens odd hours.....) |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| You will have to poke around in the BIOS to see if these options exist. "Del" on boot. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| If it beeps when you turn it on, it does that for a good reason- I've had enough computer trouble to know. Might it be easier to move the computer to another part of the apartment? |
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skookum
Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| If it beeps when you turn it on, it does that for a good reason- I've had enough computer trouble to know. Might it be easier to move the computer to another part of the apartment? |
No, it has always beeped, in a consistent and systematic sort of way. Just once when I turn it on, once or twice at a particular place in the boot-up process. It also beeps if I remove or plug in the power cord.
It did go pathologically beepy the other day and kept beeping till I turned it off. When I turned it on again later, no trouble. Maybe was overheated. But what I need to get rid off (or turn way down) is just the standard beep. |
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Cymro
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:00 am Post subject: |
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as I recall, maybe not very accurately, the mic that sounds the beep is a seperate little thing that doesn't do much, if anything else, and I think it can be taken out without causing any harm.
Don't do so until someone else on here backs me up!
It's a little black thing (with MIC or BEEP on it in white?) about the size of an aspirin on the end of two wires maybe a couple of inches long with a connection on the end that slots them over two small pins in the motherboard.
That's how I think I recall it being on the computer I put together earlier this year. |
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