No beep

[Any_Name_Does]

Hi,
Hardware wise the beep on my pc works,ie the post is signaled by a peep. But in Win 7 64 bit, no beeps. To make sure, I wrote a code with Beep and MessageBeep functions, None of them worked. Any ideas?

 

[Cogman]

Microsoft removed the beep functionality with windows vista. There is no way (that I've been able to find) to use the hardware beeper from windows vista on up.

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Microsoft removed the beep functionality with windows vista. There is no way (that I've been able to find) to use the hardware beeper from windows vista on up.

Thanks.

Hope they'll change their mind. :thumbsdown:

 

[Schmide]

Worked for me in x64?

Beep( 750, 300 );
MessageBeep(-1);

In pre CreateWindow and in the message loop.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679277%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680356(v=VS.85).aspx

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Worked for me in x64?

Beep( 750, 300 );
MessageBeep(-1);

In pre CreateWindow and in the message loop.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679277(VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680356(v=VS.85).aspx

Thanks.
Beep( 750, 300 ) works on soundcard. But not on mainboard speaker, which is where I want it to work. MessageBeep does not work at all. maybe someone in the know will take the bother and write an app which allows mainboard beep to be used again.

 

[Markbnj]

Does writing the ascii bell code to the console work? I think it was 0x07 or something in that neighborhood.

 

[Ken g6]

Try entering "echo " followed by Control-G and enter, at a command prompt.

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Try entering "echo " followed by Control-G and enter, at a command prompt.

no. no beeps

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Does writing the ascii bell code to the console work? I think it was 0x07 or something in that neighborhood.

I have no clue about the axcii bell code and how it is written.

 

[Nothinman]

Try entering "echo " followed by Control-G and enter, at a command prompt.

Looks like Win7 intercepts that and pipes it through the speakers as well...

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Looks like Win7 intercepts that and pipes it through the speakers as well...

Exactly.

 

[iCyborg]

It seems there's no way to do it from Win. Sending ASCII bell (which really is 7 btw) didn't work either. I even tried with ASM by sending INT 21h, but I get access violation during run-time. I guess Win Vista/7 doesn't let you access HW directly any more...

 

[Any_Name_Does]

It seems there's no way to do it from Win. Sending ASCII bell (which really is 7 btw) didn't work either. I even tried with ASM by sending INT 21h, but I get access violation during run-time. I guess Win Vista/7 doesn't let you access HW directly any more...

There has to be a way.
Why has windows become such an Anti beep?
A beep driver does get loaded with windows. beep.sys

 

[Markbnj]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterm...t-s-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7.aspx

 

[iCyborg]

Maybe it could be done from kernel mode, but I don't have time to play with signing requirements and what not. So OP is on his own there, unless there's someone here who worked on driver dev for Vista/7.

 

[Any_Name_Does]

Someone has already made a fix for it . it is here. http://www.datafilehost.com/download-a4c50362.html