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If you don't have external sound speakers connected to a sound card, its a
"mute" point (pun intended) - as the PC Speaker on the motherboard is
controlled via hardware interrupts sent from the computer BIOS/CMOS - so
what you need is a piece of software which intercepts sound interrupts to a
non-existent sound card and transforms them into interrupts into the BIOS,
so the BIOS can send the beep-signals to the internal motherboard speaker.
In the younger years of PC's, just when multimedia was making its debuted,
there were such utilities as the multimedia sound card/speakers were an
expensive add-on - go a "Google" search, there may be an old website or bbs
site that still has one. Or if you want a challenge, find some old DOS
program code for say DOS 5.0 or 6.22 in Qbasic possibly and port the code to
VB or VC, but be careful, application hardware interrupts are not allowed in
WinNT, 2k or XP - all hardware interrupts must go thru the appropriate
WinAPI and let WinNT, 2k or XP control the interrupt.
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"ME" <ME@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uOYxc9z$EHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> do a search for .wav files then play each one 'til you find out?
>
> "Espen Johannessen" <reply_to@group.com> wrote in message
> news:%239RTr1u$EHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Yes, exactly, and one can choose a wav-file to be played when new mail
> > arrives. The thing is that I don't know about any wav-file which plays a
> > pc-speaker beep. Do you?
> >
> > --
> > Espen
> >
> > "ME" <ME@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:e4wIHEm$EHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> you can do this if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Go to the
> >> Options and put a check box next to "Play sound when new messages
arrive"
> >> in the appropriate tab. For the sound go to Sound in Control Panel and
> >> play with the settings
> >>
> >>
> >> "Espen" <reply@togroup.com> wrote in message
> >> news:uFNHs6l$EHA.1908@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want
the
> >>> pc speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive
mail.
> >>> How can this be achieved?
> >>>
> >>> Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any
> >>> settings which control on what device the sound is played? If the
first
> >>> is the case, where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Espen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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