[SOLVED] MSI FM2-A75MA-P33 speaker installed but no beep when booting up.

[Ben Shimon]

I just installed a speaker today - before now it has not had one. The computer boots up and works just fine but does not give the single normal boot beep. I have the latest BIOS installed and the Operating system is Windows 10 Pro 64bit.
I couldn't find anything about the speaker in the manual and from what I could find on the Internet it seems that the speaker is to be installed on the JFP2 four pin connection.
I have tried the speaker plugged in with the red wire in one direction and then the other - still no beep. I have tried another speaker in both directions and no beeps (both speakers are new).
So, either I have the speaker installed on the wrong connector of the motherboard, or the beeping is somehow disabled - possibly in BIOS (but I didn't see anything in the BIOS settings pertaining to this).
There has to be a simple solution to this, I just don't know what it might be.

 

[lvt]

Did you disable Fast Boot in the Bios?

 

[Ben Shimon]

I had not turned Fast boot on or off in the Bias. I looked and found this: Under the "Advanced" menu - "Windows 8 Configuration" - "Windows 8 Feature" (already disabled) - "MSI Fast Boot" (already disabled) - "Fast Boot" (already disabled)
Those were the only things I could find the had "Fast Boot" in them and they were already disabled. I was hoping that would be the fix, but unfortunately it is not.

 

[lvt]

I found on page 33 of your motherboard's manual the diagram of the JFP2, the pin 2 & 3 are also used for beeper. You can mod your beeper connector to move the wires to the center to use with pins 2 & 3 on the JFP2 header instead of pins 1 & 4.

 

[Ben Shimon]

Yes, I also noticed that. I had considered doing what you mentioned but didn't do it. So... since you mentioned it I thought... why not... I discovered that a large sewing needle works very well for lifting the plastic stopper so the connector can be withdrawn. I moved the wires to the center two positions and tried it - no beep. I turned the speaker the other direction... still no beep. So I removed it and returned the wires to their normal position.
I bought this board new some years ago and I have been the only one using it, so it isn't something that someone else has done to it that damaged it. It has always been mounted in a computer case and operating since the day I purchased it.
Very puzzling. I never thought to install a beeper on it before, and now it is "one of those things" that must be solved!

 

[lvt]

Yes, I also noticed that. I had considered doing what you mentioned but didn't do it. So... since you mentioned it I thought... why not... I discovered that a large sewing needle works very well for lifting the plastic stopper so the connector can be withdrawn. I moved the wires to the center two positions and tried it - no beep. I turned the speaker the other direction... still no beep. So I removed it and returned the wires to their normal position.
I bought this board new some years ago and I have been the only one using it, so it isn't something that someone else has done to it that damaged it. It has always been mounted in a computer case and operating since the day I purchased it.
Very puzzling. I never thought to install a beeper on it before, and now it is "one of those things" that must be solved!

Given that your Bios work flawlessly, and there is no issue with the beeper circuit, I suspect that some Bios version don't do it. Among the computers with Asus motherboards that I built, there are some that never beep. Another one with a Lenovo motherboard having a buzzer soldered directly to the PCB, it doesn't beep either.

 

[Karadjgne]

Pc's that use AMI bios don't beep, only Award/Phoenix bios beep at boot.

AMI BIOS : 1 short beep : Memory Error

No beep = good.

 

[lvt]

Pc's that use AMI bios don't beep, only Award/Phoenix bios beep at boot.

AMI BIOS : 1 short beep : Memory Error

No beep = good.

This can be confirmed by simply removing the RAM sticks, there should be some beeps then.

 

[Ben Shimon]

Indeed... I removed the RAM and heard three beeps when I turned it on. Reinstalled the RAM and again it quietly booted up.

 

[lvt]

Indeed... I removed the RAM and heard three beeps when I turned it on. Reinstalled the RAM and again it quietly booted up.

So it varies with Bios and version, and you can't really blame MSI for that 😃

 

[Karadjgne]

Yep 👍. It's the same with Ryzens and OC, ppl are so used to OC and Intels that it becomes a natural assumption that they will act the same way. Along comes something different and ppl are freaking out when things don't seem right.