Re: Error and correction beeps

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> Furthermore, my K6-2 suddenly stopped beeping after a NIC was
> added (but this system is very scrambled--Device Manager shows chunks of
> RAM with "in use by unknown device"--and is due for a reinstall).

. . .

>     The presence or absence of sound cards seems to make no difference. I
> suspect the cause is the complex interaction of PnP opsys, BIOS, and the
> PCI spec. But then all of these devices are "mapped" to the traditional IRQs

> by Windows.

Vintage Plug 'n Pray. I think most of the devices in both of my W2K partitions
are reported as being on IRQ-9, according to Device Mgr. That strikes me as
being
ridiculous AND impossible, but I don't really care because everything seems to
work,
and I spend so little time there. Not sure if this has anything to do with my
having
turned PnP OFF (it's a total pain for OS/2). In any case, the Win-32 partitions
would
have gone onto this box first, because that's usually the most sensible
procedure, and at
that early point PnP was almost certainly in effect. It's quite difficult to
make Win
happy (if even possible at all) without it.

> The thing that makes me think the BIOS may be involved is that the AT that
> wouldn't

> beep and the new ATX that won't are both AMI; this PC, which used to beep, is
> Award,

> and the Compaq that does has a Compaq BIOS. What a mess!

Sorry you're having all this trouble. I'm afraid you may need some kind of a
hardware
savant to get to the bottom of this. I wonder if this would still be the case if
you were
running emulated Win-32 (VM or Connectix), under a different host OS ? Someone
on the
List was going to be trying that at work, as I recall, and might be able to test
that out for you.

Jordan