POST beep ?

Do all mobos have a little beeper on them for POST signals ? My new
ASUS socket 478 has a couple of pins for a "panel speaker" and doesn't
beep on power-up, even though it's working fine....

"Jethro" <jethro_uk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9d5934a5-c932-407a-9e88-5c02bfb6dddb@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Do all mobos have a little beeper on them for POST signals ? My new
> ASUS socket 478 has a couple of pins for a "panel speaker" and doesn't
> beep on power-up, even though it's working fine....

No, your case should have a small speaker that you attach to those 2 pins.
If it all works, then don't worry about it. If anything starts to go wrong,
then the beep code might be useful to you.

On 11 Feb, 10:36, "GT" <ContactGT_remo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Jethro" <jethro...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:9d5934a5-c932-407a-9e88-5c02bfb6dddb@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Do all mobos have a little beeper on them for POST signals ? My new
> > ASUS socket 478 has a couple of pins for a "panel speaker" and doesn't
> > beep on power-up, even though it's working fine....
>
> No, your case should have a small speaker that you attach to those 2 pins.
> If it all works, then don't worry about it. If anything starts to go wrong,
> then the beep code might be useful to you.

Ah, no speaker in case - the previous mobo(MSI 6714) had a little
pizeo soldered to it.

I spent hours tearing my hair out, because unbeknown to me, my LCD
montior had some sort of fit and "jammed" (uplugging the power lead
cured it). So I was staring at a blank screen - not beeps and
wondering wtf was going on. If I CBA I'll post the full story ....

GT wrote:
>
> "Jethro" <jethro_uk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9d5934a5-c932-407a-9e88-5c02bfb6dddb@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> > Do all mobos have a little beeper on them for POST signals ? My new
> > ASUS socket 478 has a couple of pins for a "panel speaker" and doesn't
> > beep on power-up, even though it's working fine....
>
> No, your case should have a small speaker that you attach to those 2 pins.
> If it all works, then don't worry about it. If anything starts to go wrong,
> then the beep code might be useful to you.

You can solder leads to the piezo buzzer from the old motherboard.


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Mike Walsh

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:30:42 -0500, Mike Walsh
<spam_sucks@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
>
>GT wrote:
>>
>> "Jethro" <jethro_uk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:9d5934a5-c932-407a-9e88-5c02bfb6dddb@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> > Do all mobos have a little beeper on them for POST signals ? My new
>> > ASUS socket 478 has a couple of pins for a "panel speaker" and doesn't
>> > beep on power-up, even though it's working fine....
>>
>> No, your case should have a small speaker that you attach to those 2 pins.
>> If it all works, then don't worry about it. If anything starts to go wrong,
>> then the beep code might be useful to you.
>
>You can solder leads to the piezo buzzer from the old motherboard.

I suppose he could, but the old buzzer was soldered to the
old board most likely, and odds are good the new board also
has a position on it for the buzzer so if it's desired to
use the buzzer and there's the ability to wield a soldering
iron, it'd be much neater to just have it on the new board
directly instead of with leads.