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Wednesday, 21 August 2002
Mystery

My Linux box beeps when I reboot it.

To the casual observer, there's nothing mysterious about that; most PCs beep when you reboot them.

The thing is, there's no speaker in the case. The speaker pins on the motherboard aren't connected to anything. There is a soundcard built into the motherboard, but I haven't connected any speakers to it. There doesn't appear to be a piezoelectric element on the motherboard.

There's nothing on or in that machine that should be able to make an audible beep.

And yet... it beeps.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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