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Question post beeping

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bjlockie

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Is the case supposed to have the speaker that does the beeping for post codes?
I recently got a new power supply and I noticed my PC doesn't beep when it boots.
I don't think it ever did so I asked ASRock and they said I need to attach a "beep speaker" to the motherboard.
I wondered if cases usually have them?
 
back in the PC/AT days, they had a real 3" speaker that attached to a four-pin header on the mobo, and the speaker was generally pre-mounted somewhere in the chassis.

These days, with modern ATX PCs, mobos still sport the standard 4-pin speaker header, but generally, the case "fiddly bits" include a peizo-electric speaker that does the same function, at least for beeping. It must be attached to the mobo by the builder.
 
yeah I don't think modern case designs include them any longer. You could just get something like this or cannibalize the piezo buzzer off an old motherboard and solder your own connector on.


As far as cannibalizing parts off old boards, I just go outside and hold a propane torch about 8" away from the back of the board, then slap the board against an open cardboard box and all kinds of components come off. Outside because it stinks like crazy once the PCB burns.
 
I guess I don't need one else there is a problem. 🙂
Kinda annoying they don't include it anymore because they are cheap relative to the price of a case.
 
I had to buy one separately for my motherboard back in 2019. Wish someone would make one with a soft chime. Or just get creative and make speakers for all kinds of optional sounds.
Electronic beep is downright crude these days.
 
Depends on the board.
Most cases, no... most boards unless enterprise grade will just have a header, while real server boards have onboard speaker.

If you have a OEM, like a Dell, most of those do for internal service reasons.
 
These days office systems are too quiet. In the old days, you could hear the whirring and static of the HDD. It gave you a clue that something was happening inside the box. Now? Nothing, other than the occasional ramp up of the CPU fan. Maybe someone should design a HDD noise simulator based on SSD load. Offer different noise profiles. New HDDs sounded like soft whispers. The older they got, the more scratchy noises they made. I would buy such a software.
 
As others have stated, boards use to have the speaker built into them. Now they are saving on the space (mainly because the space was taken over by M.2 drives or it is where they moved the SATA/SAS/USB/case connectors/headers).

They sell these speakers all over the place, search for "motherboard speaker" on amazon and you will find about a dozen different ones (probably all made in the same factory in China).
 
igor_kavinski said:
These days office systems are too quiet. In the old days, you could hear the whirring and static of the HDD. It gave you a clue that something was happening inside the box. Now? Nothing, other than the occasional ramp up of the CPU fan. Maybe someone should design a HDD noise simulator based on SSD load. Offer different noise profiles. New HDDs sounded like soft whispers. The older they got, the more scratchy noises they made. I would buy such a software.
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Get a piezo buzzer with a low ~3V activation threshold, hook up to mobo drive activity LED header (instead of LED) lol.
 
mindless1 said:
Get a piezo buzzer with a low ~3V activation threshold, hook up to mobo drive activity LED header (instead of LED) lol.
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Oh god, wouldn't that beep all the time your PC was on, and if you conntected it to the HDD LED, then it would beep at the most random situations along with each time it was accessing the Drives.
I would shoot the person who installed that, and then drag them out to the street to shoot them some more.


You can just get one of these:

and just plug it in the speaker header on the motherboard which im pretty sure almost all of them have.

Then again, why is a 1 dollar speaker not even given to you for free when you buy a 200+ dollar motherboard.
 
aigomorla said:
Oh god, wouldn't that beep all the time your PC was on, and if you conntected it to the HDD LED, then it would beep at the most random situations along with each time it was accessing the Drives.
I would shoot the person who installed that, and then drag them out to the street to shoot them some more.


You can just get one of these:

and just plug it in the speaker header on the motherboard which im pretty sure almost all of them have.

Then again, why is a 1 dollar speaker not even given to you for free when you buy a 200+ dollar motherboard.
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I could swear I have one somewhere that was included with a motherboard. I just don't use them any longer. I usually have an LED debugger, though they are becoming rarer themselves.
 
bigboxes said:
I could swear I have one somewhere that was included with a motherboard. I just don't use them any longer. I usually have an LED debugger, though they are becoming rarer themselves.
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yeah i think some boards actually gave you one.
Although, it seems like vendors are looking for ways to shave off excess to save cost as much as possible, which include a less then 1 dollar speaker.
 
aigomorla said:
yeah i think some boards actually gave you one.
Although, it seems like vendors are looking for ways to shave off excess to save cost as much as possible, which include a less then 1 dollar speaker.
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When I purchase $400+ motherboards, they should include everything in the box.
 
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