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**hwm54112** · 10-20-2006, 10:40 AM

It's doubtful that there is a seperate "case" speaker (no need for one)in a laptop so all sounds come from the built in audio speakers. When you plug in external speakers, the internal speakers are disabled.

Check control panel>sounds and audio> sounds tab> check what action the exclamation.wav file has been assigned to

You should also force a keyboard error while the laptop is booting if you don’t know what a “bios beep” sounds like to determine if the sound you are hearing is a bios warning or a windows action. It’s unlikely it’s a bios warning but you never know. You should be able to force a keyboard error by holding down any alphabetical key while booting. You might have to enter bios setup and change the “stop on errors” setting to “stop on keyboard errors only” if such a setting exists

10-20-2006, 10:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
hwm54112 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,233 OS: WINXP	It's doubtful that there is a seperate "case" speaker (no need for one)in a laptop so all sounds come from the built in audio speakers. When you plug in external speakers, the internal speakers are disabled. Check control panel>sounds and audio> sounds tab> check what action the exclamation.wav file has been assigned to You should also force a keyboard error while the laptop is booting if you don’t know what a “bios beep” sounds like to determine if the sound you are hearing is a bios warning or a windows action. It’s unlikely it’s a bios warning but you never know. You should be able to force a keyboard error by holding down any alphabetical key while booting. You might have to enter bios setup and change the “stop on errors” setting to “stop on keyboard errors only” if such a setting exists Last edited by hwm54112; 10-20-2006 at 10:52 AM.