Disabling The Internal Speakers

I do not know what OS or Audio Software you have but with my system (Precision 610, NT4) it is fairly simple. The procedure is:
1. Open Volumne Controls from the System Tray (Right Click)
2. Go into the Advanced Options (may have to click on Options and activate the Advanced Controls)
3. Check the Box which Mutes the PC Speaker
4. Close

It is this simple for the CrystalWare Audio software that is on my machine.

Good Luck

Boot the system to the BIOS (system setup) by hitting the F2 key at the Dell logo. Move down to the section that says 'integrated devices'. Hit enter and look for the speaker. Turn it off and then hit ESC a few times to save and exit.

In W2K, I can double click the speaker ICON, click advanced, then click 'mute PC speaker'. Beleive the BIOS has an integrated compponents settings as well.

I have a lab full of Precision 340 that I too need to disable the PC Speakers. This is a classroom lab so this is desperate.

I'm running Windows 2000 SP3 and the Advance Control option is greyed out. I tried to disable PC Speakers in BIOS (version A05) and that doesn't work (sound is still heard). Disabling sound in BIOS does work, but that's not what I want. I've upgraded to BIOS version A06 and that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Only one I have come up with is to "plug" the output jack in the back. Headphone jack in front will still work if I do this and no sound from PC Speaker. But this is not an ideal solution.

Indeed, we have 340s and 530s here, wei've disabled the pc speaker in the bios and still we get volume thru the speaker, we've looked into the audio mixer settings and the advanced option is also greyed out. we also get low volume thru the speaker if headphones are jacked in the front of the systems - only plugging in the back actually makes the speaker turn off 100%.

we are running windows 2000 sp2, we have the latest direct x 9 and the latest driver a19 applied but still no joy.

 

how do you get the greyed out 'advanced options' to be available?

 

cheers

I have the same problems with Precision 340 and 530 machines under Win2k and WinXP.

On older PC's and operating systems the Options, Advanced controls was enabled and PC speaker could be successfully muted from there, but I have not seen this option enabled for modern systems & drivers for a long time, possibly not since NT4.

On the PC I am setting up currently (340/WinXP, latest Bios & Soundmax drivers), PC Speaker is off in the BIOS, "PC Beep" is muted in the mixer, but there are no Advanced Controls in the mixer to disable the speaker. Despite the absence of this option, I still would have thought that setting PC Speaker to Off in the BIOS would actually turn the PC Speaker off!

As this long standing problem seems to be too low priority to receive a proper fix, the only option available seems to be to mute/disable all sound on the PC, and remember to enable it again if you ever need it.

 

Stephen

There is definitely a 'defect' regarding the Dell M60 on board speakers!

First of all, how do I disable it  (without physically mutilating the speaker, which Dell will not like I guess).  If I disable  from the volume control, it disables all audio!

The most annoying thing is that when using a head phone, if a bios beep is generated by some some software, the speaker turns ON, beeps

What is even more amusing is that while beeping, one can hear what ever audio (say music) is being played through the sound card and is otherwise going to the headphone (with a headphone plugged in).

So, imagine the scenario,... in a quiet office, I am working, listening to music on my headphone, and suddenly there is a loud beep overlayed with music! Thats a very creative bug indeed.

However, I would like to disable the speaker once and for all, and any assistance from Dell will be welcome.

I hope it is not a hardware boo boo, which would mean I am stuck with it! That would be good, actually, because then I can complain to my company to dump Dell altogether :)

 

 

I gave up on this issue a long time ago. I now order all my PCs with the "no internal speaker" option.