"No BEEP" but boot up normal

[tjpro4]

Hello all,

Do any one know what is the problem of a no beep when I start power up an Intel Desktop board D865GBF, D945GNT and DG33FB? All these model of mother boards are running with Kingstone RAM from 1GB to 2GB. Western Digital HDD, Channel Well or Enhance industrial graded power supply. Window XP installed.

I build computer and do hardware/integration at work. I recently found all these boards are boot up just fine but no beep when boot up even without any PCI interface card intalled. Window XP is also work as normal.

1. First I thought the built-in on board speaker is bad, but I boot up with no RAM installed, error code beep right up. That can tell me that Speaker is function just fine.

2. I tried to swap all kind of different PSU, it is still no beep when boot start.

3. The reason I need to fix this issue because our software is depend on the mother board speaker when certain feature option is selected by users. and the internal speaker will beep along with the selection.

Please advise,

Best,

tjpro4

[Sylvander]

"I boot up with no RAM installed, error code beep right up"
Therefore the whole setup = BIOS Post and internal speaker, is fully functional, in that it can and does generate and sound beeps.
But is the particular BIOS POST in use designed to sound a single short beep to signal successful completion of the POST? Apparently not!

"our software is depend on the mother board speaker when certain feature option is selected by users. and the internal speaker will beep along with the selection"
And does that function or not?
The fact that the BIOS POST isn't designed to generate the single short beep would have no effect on other functionality.

[Paul Komski]

Within WinXP if you open a command prompt and then use CTRL+G (it should display ^G at the prompt) and then hit Enter that should usually generate a beep from the speaker.

[Sylvander]

Well, that certainly works on my own PC...

Nice one! :cool:

[Heartborne]

I've noticed that some prefabs have the internal speaker disabled when the system boots normally. I wonder if this can be changed in the BIOS... most prefabs kind of lock you out of the BIOS and give you a handful of useless options.

[Paul Komski]

I've noticed that some prefabs have the internal speaker disabled when the system boots normally.

Different boards do do different things but one not uncommon one is to beep the first time the BIOS are changed or reset but to not beep at subsequent POSTs.

[tjpro4]

Thank you so much for all of your comments. First, I emailed to Intel Tech Support, no one answer my question beside it was just an auto reply email with a bunch of FAQ which are not related to my question.

The reason I stated that I removed all RAM memory and power it up to make sure the Bios post test can prove the speaker is not malfunctioning, because it does do the mem error beep when I power up without RAM installed. Now I know built-in internal on mobo speaker is good.

After a few days of researching for that uncommon issue, I found no answer, so I belive it much be some thing on the Bios setting, I went back to the Bios setup page in D865GBF mobo, I found out "the Silent boot" option was enable in the Boot menu page.

So I disable the silent boot, then save the bios and restart the power cycle. It beep right after memory test from POST, I am so glad I found the cause.

Once It does a POST beep every time I power it up, our software will hear the music beep every time user try to select certain feature. That is exactly what our Software designer wrote the software in that way. Problem solved :-) Thanks,

Best,

tjpro4

[Heartborne]

see that? It was just a simple BIOS setting after all. :) Welcome to the first tier of tech support, though... some guy overseas gets paid $7 an hour to send out pre-written emails that have nothing to do with the question asked. It's wonderful.

[Sun-Tzu]

Sweet,

There's the answer to one of the questions I just posted.

There's lots to be learned from reding threads to conclusion.

I don't think I'll be turning the post beep back on, but it's nice to know that it's not an issue with the board or speaker.