No beeps from Asus P4C800 Deluxe

[Pluvious]

Posting for a friend of mine.. he just built his very first computer
and it all went pretty well, except when I mentioned that the beeps at
boot are nothing to worry about.. (USB beep code) and he said he
doesn't have ANY beeps at boot up.

Sure enough when I went over there and checked it out.. there is
complete silence as he boots up the machine. I explained if 'heaven
forbid' something where to go seriously wrong how would he diagnose
the trouble if he were unable to hear the error beep codes??

I don't remember hooking up a speaker on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
board.. does the non E version have a lead for the mobo speaker or is
it supposed to be automatic?

Pluvious

 

[M.L]

Yes, he must have a speaker or buzzer connected at the right pins.
Take care to not reverse plus 5v and ground

Mike

 

[Homer]

I have heard that this mother board does not beep at the boot up. They did
away with it if it passes its post with no errors.

Homer

 

[Pluvious]

||I have heard that this mother board does not beep at the boot up. They did
||away with it if it passes its post with no errors.
||
||Homer
||

So the error beep codes will be heard if something disastrous where to
happen??.. I've never seen a computer that didn't beep at least once
when you do a fresh boot.

Pluvious


||||>
||>
||> Posting for a friend of mine.. he just built his very first computer
||> and it all went pretty well, except when I mentioned that the beeps at
||> boot are nothing to worry about.. (USB beep code) and he said he
||> doesn't have ANY beeps at boot up.
||>
||> Sure enough when I went over there and checked it out.. there is
||> complete silence as he boots up the machine. I explained if 'heaven
||> forbid' something where to go seriously wrong how would he diagnose
||> the trouble if he were unable to hear the error beep codes??
||>
||> I don't remember hooking up a speaker on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
||> board.. does the non E version have a lead for the mobo speaker or is
||> it supposed to be automatic?
||>
||> Pluvious
||>
||>
||

 

[cimetière]

If you have bios 1015 and up, there is no "beep" anymore... Should
something go wrong, you would get a voice message through your speaker...
It happened to me once when I overclocked my system too far, and it said
"cpu test failed" a few times.

 

[Pluvious]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:24:18 -0400, "cimetière"

||If you have bios 1015 and up, there is no "beep" anymore... Should
||something go wrong, you would get a voice message through your speaker...
||It happened to me once when I overclocked my system too far, and it said
||"cpu test failed" a few times.

I thought if you diabled the onboard sound you lost the voice feature.
Am I incorrect?

Pluvious

 

[JBM]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:24:18 -0400, "cimetière"

||If you have bios 1015 and up, there is no "beep" anymore... Should
||something go wrong, you would get a voice message through your speaker...
||It happened to me once when I overclocked my system too far, and it said
||"cpu test failed" a few times.

I thought if you diabled the onboard sound you lost the voice feature.
Am I incorrect?

Pluvious

There is a separate setting in the BIOS to set the voice feature.
So even if you use a PCI sound card you can still use that feature.
But you still have to have a speaker plugged in to the on board sound
jack.

Jim M

 

[Paul]

There is a separate setting in the BIOS to set the voice feature.
So even if you use a PCI sound card you can still use that feature.
But you still have to have a speaker plugged in to the on board sound
jack.

Jim M

The application note for the Voice POST chip, says to
capacitively couple it to the Line Out jack on the motherboard.
If you disable onboard sound, the Voice POST signal will still
be presented on the (lime colored) Line Out jack on the back
of the computer. The Voice POST output doesn't magically
get moved to a PCI sound card, if you plug one in.

Cap Motherboard
Onboard_Sound_Chip ---------||-------+-------> Line_Out
Cap |
Voice_POST_Chip ---------||-------+
Sound Card
PCI_Sound_Card ---------------------------> Line_Out

To hear the Voice POST, you would have to be connected to
motherboard Line_Out jack shown in the diagram above.

A PCI sound card is a great way to be rid of "bitchin betty",
in cases where the BIOS Voice POST disable feature doesn't work.

As for the single beep during POST, there are several chips on
a motherboard that can have something to do with driving the
computer case speaker. The ICH5 Southbridge has a SPKR pin on
it, and that could be used to drive the speaker. The processor
has to specifically enable the SPKR output pin after power on
reset, for that to work. (The Intel reference schematic shows
it driving the speaker, but Asus might do something different.)

HTH,
Paul

 

[Tony Marcus]

I thought there were beeps for each USB device installed, no device, no
beep. Tony

 

[Pluvious]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:31:13 GMT, "Tony Marcus"

||I thought there were beeps for each USB device installed, no device, no
||beep. Tony
||

He has 3 USB devices...


||||>
||>
||> Posting for a friend of mine.. he just built his very first computer
||> and it all went pretty well, except when I mentioned that the beeps at
||> boot are nothing to worry about.. (USB beep code) and he said he
||> doesn't have ANY beeps at boot up.
||>
||> Sure enough when I went over there and checked it out.. there is
||> complete silence as he boots up the machine. I explained if 'heaven
||> forbid' something where to go seriously wrong how would he diagnose
||> the trouble if he were unable to hear the error beep codes??
||>
||> I don't remember hooking up a speaker on my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
||> board.. does the non E version have a lead for the mobo speaker or is
||> it supposed to be automatic?
||>
||> Pluvious
||>
||>
||

 

[Pluvious]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:31:42 -0500, (e-mail address removed) (Paul) wrote:

||In article <[email protected]>, "JBM"
||
||> ||> > On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:24:18 -0400, "cimetière"
||> >
||> > ||If you have bios 1015 and up, there is no "beep" anymore... Should
||> > ||something go wrong, you would get a voice message through your
||> speaker...
||> > ||It happened to me once when I overclocked my system too far, and it said
||> > ||"cpu test failed" a few times.
||> >
||> > I thought if you diabled the onboard sound you lost the voice feature.
||> > Am I incorrect?
||> >
||> > Pluvious
||> >
||> >
||>
||> There is a separate setting in the BIOS to set the voice feature.
||> So even if you use a PCI sound card you can still use that feature.
||> But you still have to have a speaker plugged in to the on board sound
||> jack.
||>
||> Jim M
||
||The application note for the Voice POST chip, says to
||capacitively couple it to the Line Out jack on the motherboard.
||If you disable onboard sound, the Voice POST signal will still
||be presented on the (lime colored) Line Out jack on the back
||of the computer. The Voice POST output doesn't magically
||get moved to a PCI sound card, if you plug one in.
||
|| Cap Motherboard
|| Onboard_Sound_Chip ---------||-------+-------> Line_Out
|| Cap |
|| Voice_POST_Chip ---------||-------+
|| Sound Card
|| PCI_Sound_Card ---------------------------> Line_Out
||
||To hear the Voice POST, you would have to be connected to
||motherboard Line_Out jack shown in the diagram above.
||
||A PCI sound card is a great way to be rid of "bitchin betty",
||in cases where the BIOS Voice POST disable feature doesn't work.
||
||As for the single beep during POST, there are several chips on
||a motherboard that can have something to do with driving the
||computer case speaker. The ICH5 Southbridge has a SPKR pin on
||it, and that could be used to drive the speaker. The processor
||has to specifically enable the SPKR output pin after power on
||reset, for that to work. (The Intel reference schematic shows
||it driving the speaker, but Asus might do something different.)
||
||HTH,
|| Paul


Thanks for explaining that Paul.. I never got the voice to work either
on my setup. Sounds like a lead didn't find a home on a certain pin
with my friends situation.

Pluvious