re: Enable Internal Speaker Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 11:06 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3588 messages posted) |OK, I can test the speaker and *it doesn't work properly on 98SE*. | Rick Trelles | It's NOT something installed *by default* under Windoze. |At bootup[,] [BIOS] make[s] it sound right. | *That* is POST--not Windoze; not even DOS. You're still running firmware at that point. |Same computer running Windows 2000 make[s] the speaker sound right. | Any box that does, has a proper device driver installed. |On 98SE the speaker makes only very mute and brief like tap sounds. | In Larry Osterman's article linked below, look for "8253" (an Intel support chip from ~1979). These days, that function is part of the Southbridge. cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_(computing)#Functionality ++interrupt.controller See also "square wave" on Larry Osterman's page. |I need to test a program that makes frequent use of the speaker, on 98SE. | If *you* are *writing* a program, I suggest that you access THE AUDIO SUBSYSTEM instead (i.e. "THE SOUND CARD"). If you *must* actually access the 2" toy speaker in the box: (The only other thing that I can think of that *does* is the dial-up process.) cache of http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman//2005/11/04/489135.aspx ++BEEP.SYS++The.Beep.API The solution isn't in the article body, but is in the comments (kb/q138857). Written in response to: re: Enable Internal Speaker (Rick Trelles: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:26 pm) Responses to this message: re: Enable Internal Speaker (Rick Trelles: Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12:42 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Enable Internal Speaker (Jeno: Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 4:35 am) re: Enable Internal Speaker (C K: Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 9:02 am) re: Enable Internal Speaker (dhm: Mon, Mar 31, 2008, 11:10 pm) re: Enable Internal Speaker (gewg_: Tue, Apr 1, 2008, 2:23 pm) re: Enable Internal Speaker (Rick Trelles: Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 10:26 pm) re: Enable Internal Speaker (gewg_: Thu, Jul 24, 2008, 11:06 am) re: Enable Internal Speaker (Rick Trelles: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 12:42 am) re: Enable Internal Speaker (gewg_: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 2:45 pm) re: Enable Internal Speaker (Rick Trelles: Fri, Jul 25, 2008, 10:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum