Patterns of Bugs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 08 January 2011 00:16:13 Walter Bright wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> > 	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 ;)
> 
> That's a heckuva lot better than an undocumented beep pattern which is what
> I got.

LOL. The beeps for mine are documented in the motherboadr manual, but the beeps 
are so hard to distinguish from one another, that it borders on useless. A voice 
would certainly be better.

- Jonathan M Davis