DFI M/Boards & Speakers

[Jack]

We are experimenting with a program for voice comms over our LAN/WAN.
As most people are in an open-plan office environment the use of headsets
is preferred to speakers and desktop microphones but they do not need to
wear them permanently - i.e. only when in conversation.
The app. allows for an incoming call to flagged by sending ring-tone to the
speakers (which hardly anyone ever hears via the headset when not being
worn) or to beep the basic PC speaker [ i.e. the chassis-mounted one -
_not_ the sound card/chip one].

The majority of our machines use DFI mobos with Award BIOS and no provision
is made for the use of the basic speaker (although there are pin-outs for it
which are wired to the chassis speaker ).

I'm assuming that the problem is due to the Award bios not being programmed
to use the chassis speaker because there is a small *buzzer* type device on
the m/board for signalling BIOS beeps.

Can anyone think of a work-around ?
Do these on-board *buzzers* use standard addresses? etc.

TIA
Craig

 

[Kelly Cotter]

We are experimenting with a program for voice comms over our LAN/WAN.
As most people are in an open-plan office environment the use of
headsets is preferred to speakers and desktop microphones but they do
not need to wear them permanently - i.e. only when in conversation.
The app. allows for an incoming call to flagged by sending ring-tone
to the speakers (which hardly anyone ever hears via the headset when
not being worn) or to beep the basic PC speaker [ i.e. the
chassis-mounted one - _not_ the sound card/chip one].

The majority of our machines use DFI mobos with Award BIOS and no
provision is made for the use of the basic speaker (although there
are pin-outs for it which are wired to the chassis speaker ).

I'm assuming that the problem is due to the Award bios not being
programmed to use the chassis speaker because there is a small
*buzzer* type device on the m/board for signalling BIOS beeps.

Can anyone think of a work-around ?
Do these on-board *buzzers* use standard addresses? etc.

TIA
Craig

method 1 (messy)
if you are handy with a soldering iron attach a led via wares to the
"buzzer" connections and mount it on top of the monitor

method 2 (harder)
program the software to use a pop up on screen