Anyone know how to turn off the internal speaker on a Toshiba Laptop?

[kehi]

I have looked in the bios and I have seen no place for me to turn the aggrevating thing off. I do not have the sound driver installed for the motherboard. TIA, help is greatly appreciated

 

[Injury]

It's not designed to be able to turn on/off... if the laptop won't start up you might have to listen to beeps to know what is wrong.

Short of de-soldering it... nothing is going to change.

Maybe a better bet is to install some wrong or generic drivers for the sound then disable them?

PS: WRONG FORUM.

 

[swtethan]

Fn button + f4(between ctrl and alt and it should be f4, looks like a speaker, its beeps for how loud it is louder louder silent...)

 

[ElFenix]

cut it off

 

[swtethan]

did you try it yet? im on my toshiba right now

 

[kehi]

yes, I tried it and nothing happens to pop up. I have no driver at all installed for the sound card

 

[swtethan]

nothing will pop up......

its just a beep from your computer

the Fn button is the alternate button to access your numberpad (the ones in grey)

so you press the Fn + f4 until it goes silent

it will beep each time you press it until it goes silent

 

[kehi]

fn + f4 yeilds no beep or nothing. My F4 key looks like a hard disk platter picture. BTW: do I have to have some Toshiba software on here in order to get the keys to work? I installed XP Pro, got rid of the Home that came on it

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: kehi
fn + f4 yeilds no beep or nothing. My F4 key looks like a hard disk platter picture

well find the one with the picture of a speaker! 😀 FN+ speaker picture

 

[kehi]

it does nothing at all, I think I might have to install driver to get the function keys to work

 

[Goosemaster]

if something in the bios doesn't do it, use one of these...

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[jupiter57]

Yes, You will have to install the "Hotkey" (or whatever Toshiba calls them) drivers before your Fn keys will work.
(Compaq calls them "Hotkeys", I don't know about Toshiba though.)
Should be able to get them at the Toshiba site.