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Indeed. Every motherboard has a small speaker that will beep if a error is found. Usually you can find the beep error codes for a particular board online or in its manual. I think for mine its 4 fast beeps to let me know my ram is not seated properly.
Every board does not have this feature, some newer ones do and for older ones you can buy a post beeper that inserts into a speaker slot. Your manual will tell you if you have one
Well older to a point. Go back to to anytime before late 2000s and every board had a speaker!
Nope. A lot of them back then either had a small speaker in the box that you had to connect, or relied on the case speaker, and they just had the motherboard headers.
I used to have a small collection of the speakers, because you could guarantee that the friend's computer that you were repairing didn't have a way for you to listen to the BIOS beeps :)
Stand corrected, every motherboard I'd had experience with had it connected to a post buzzer.
Never thought there be a case where it wouldn't be included, as it was essential back then (I'm of the mind they still should, as well as power and activity leds, which seem to have disappeared from laptops)
Yeah, it's one of those stupid things that hardly any manufacturers thought of. It probably saved them a few pennies per board though 🙄
Considering how the BIOS beeps were the only way to know what had gone wrong, short of pulling components and testing, it was very shortsighted.
I stand corrected... i wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info.
Unless you haven't attached the CPU power cables, only the motherboard ones. In which case it will boot, the fans will spin up, the SSD will activate, but it won't boot and it won't beep.
That was a fun one to diagnose :)
Memories... thats def a fun one