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June 7th, 2003 16:00
Disabling PC Speaker
I have an Inspiron 8500 with Windows XP Pro SP1 and I recently installed a few apps & games that persist in using the PC speaker with no option to turn it off. I have tried going into volume\advanced and ticking PC Spk Mute but that does nothing. If this were my desktop I'd just pull the plug of the motherboard, but it's a laptop. Any ideas on how to kill the pc speaker?
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RedgeDunlop
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June 7th, 2003 18:00
BLiTZWiNG
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June 8th, 2003 02:00
No I don't have external speakers hooked up, only what came inside the laptop itself. I'm trying to describe it as a standard desktop setup. Imagine your standard desktop pc, inside it has the "PC Speaker" which can only make those horrible noises from games long past and those beeps on startup, and then you normally have a sound card plugged in and you hook speakers to it.
Now, in terms of the laptop, it has both, but they play through the same speakers. I can mute my sound card, and no sound will play through the laptops own internal speakers, but any program that tries to access the PC Speaker inside the laptop will succeed (and at full volume I might add). I'd really love to just pull the plug on it, but I imagine that the sound card and the pc speaker controller are using the same speakers inside the laptop.
Power_User
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June 8th, 2003 04:00
Yes, I have the same problem. I find some applications are able to by-pass the muted volume. In my case, I am running eXceed XWin emulator. If you try to open a xterm, then press down arrow key, the laptop will give a very loud "beep". Even with all, everything selected to be mute (including the advanced options selected to PC Spk Mute), the beep is still heard from a thousand miles away.
I would also love a solution to turning the volume off without removing any audio drivers. I have also installed the lastest audio driver, but it does solve our problem.
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Power_User
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June 8th, 2003 04:00
Correction to my previous post: the new audio driver does NOT solve my problem
Regards.
Power_User
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June 13th, 2003 14:00
Dell Rance,
To add further description to my problem...
when I have headphones plugged into my Inspiron 8500, some applications still manage to send sound through the laptop's built-in speakers. How can I stop this?
My system:
Inspiron 8500, P4m 2.0Ghz, 768RAM, 40G HD, Nvidia Go 4200, 15.4" WSVGA.
service Tag: GW9PT21
Software causing problems: eXceed 8.0, XWin32.
ooOOiNsPiRoNOOo
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June 17th, 2003 23:00
Hello there!
did you try disabling the internal speaker from the bios? What os are you running? if you have xp I have observed the default drivers have the most options including "pc speaker" "phoneline" almost every output I can think of........of course this is within windows, if you are using an emulator you might want to find a 3rd party sound utility...try a search at http://www.tucows.com look for "sound utility" otherwise comb the message boards or newsgroups looking for the latest mods and or drivers for your sound card
dropgear
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November 28th, 2003 17:00
I'm experiencing the same problems that you are. I've muted the PC Speaker in the Advanced options, my BIOS does not have an option for turning off the PC speaker, and Prince of Persia is really really loud :D My system is Win 2K SP 2, Inspiron 8500, 3.52 Realtek audio drivers.
Edit: Found this solution: http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_audio&message.id=14121
Thanks,
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Message Edited by dropgear on 11-28-2003 02:49 PM