So I've done everything I've seen recommended short of opening the pc and yanking out wires. The beep isn't the problem, I wish all the pc speaker let out was an occasional beep. All sound that would normally come out of my desktop speakers also comes out of the pc speaker. Music, videos, DVDs, annoying talking pop up ads... Help please! Windows XP Pro SP2 Dell Optiplex GX260 P4 2.6GHz / 2GB / 250GB

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You might have to move a Jumper on the Board(third Item in the Search).Here is a 
Googlesearch on the Subject.Not very clear,but thats Dell for you.BTW:Have you checked 
on the Dell Homesite too?

http://www.google.com/search?q=disable++pc+speaker+in+dell+optiplex&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

:)    werner

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Feel free to disconnect the 'spkr' connector from the motherboard - physically snipping the speaker wire(s), with the computer off accomplishes the same thing with no downside.


On Monday, March 26, 2007 at 3:04 pm, Athena wrote:
>So I've done everything I've seen recommended short of opening the pc and yanking
>out wires. The beep isn't the problem, I wish all the pc speaker let out was an occasional
>beep. All sound that would normally come out of my desktop speakers also comes out
>of the pc speaker. Music, videos, DVDs, annoying talking pop up ads... Help please!
>
>Windows XP Pro SP2
>Dell Optiplex GX260
>P4 2.6GHz / 2GB / 250GB

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Finally! I went to the Dell website, found a diagram of my pc's guts, reached back in there and yanked that bugger out. They stashed it in the most indiscernible spot possible. Thank you all for your responses and help!

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Open device manager, click on the view menu and tick the option to show hidden devices. Scroll down to the Non Plug and Play devices and expand it and right mouse click on Beep and choose disable. On Vista you can unistall the driver. Stops the beep for good. Also, there is a way to do it via group policy editor but I don't know that one.


On Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:04 pm, Athena wrote:
>So I've done everything I've seen recommended short of opening the pc and yanking
>out wires. The beep isn't the problem, I wish all the pc speaker let out was an occasional
>beep. All sound that would normally come out of my desktop speakers also comes out
>of the pc speaker. Music, videos, DVDs, annoying talking pop up ads... Help please!
>
>Windows XP Pro SP2
>Dell Optiplex GX260
>P4 2.6GHz / 2GB / 250GB

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Run cmd/x and run net stop beep It worked for me when all else failed, mainly due to the fact that the bell character ^G is interpreted by the shell as a beep. Hope this helps someone else out there.


On Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 3:11 am, snert wrote:
>Open device manager, click on the view menu and tick the option to show hidden devices.
>Scroll down to the Non Plug and Play devices and expand it and right mouse click
>on Beep and choose disable. On Vista you can unistall the driver. Stops the beep
>for good. Also, there is a way to do it via group policy editor but I don't know
>that one.
>
>
>

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You can stop the driver loading at boot time. Regedit, navigate to HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Beep and change the value "Start" from 00000001 to 00000004 to disable it. Cheers. Spexx.

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thnx for the post

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