Patterns of Bugs

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 08.01.2011 08:57, schrieb "Jérôme M. Berger":
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Friday, January 07, 2011 11:06:23 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 1/7/11, Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>>> Some of them, like the hard drive LED, don't even
>>>>
>>>> indicate
>>>> the polarity on the connector..
>>> I hate those things. There's bunch of LEDs on the PC case - USB
>>> indicators, power LEDs, etc, and they all have this super-tiny
>>> connector and they have to be put together in a really tight place on
>>> the motherboard. I leave the PC speaker disconnected though, who needs
>>> that thing anyway? :p
>>
>> It's useful for informing you that the computer is starting correctly and gives
>> you an idea of what's wrong if it isn't (though you can live without that if the
>> computer seems to be okay). It's also useful for things like for when your CPU
>> is getting too warm. However, I think that it's horrific that anything in the OS
>> or any program on the computer at all uses the PC speaker. It is _annoying_ when
>> the command-line of all things starts beeping at you because you hit backspace
>> too many times or something like that. At the moment, I haven't been configuring
>> my kernel recently (which is _not_ a fun thing to have to keep doing on every
>> kernel update IMHO), but when I was, I specifically did _not_ compile in the PC
>> speaker driver. I wish that that were the norm. Which reminds me, while the PC
>> speaker is disabled in KDE, I really need to go and track down which change I
>> need to make where to silence it when I've booted to the console rather than all
>> the way into KDE...
>>
> 	When I built my latest PC, I saw in the MB manual that it would use
> speech synthesis on the PC speaker to report errors. So I tried to
> power on the PC without having plugged either CPU or RAM and it
> started to say "NO CPU FOUND! NO CPU FOUND!" in a loop with a
> hilarious Asian accent and the kind of rasping voice that used to
> characterized old DOS games. Pretty fun ;)
>
> 		Jerome

This is kinda cool. What kind of MB is that?