Patterns of Bugs

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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.

Yes, what is the difference between a "slow beep" and a "fast beep"?

While I'm ranting, does anyone else have trouble remembering which of O and | is 
on, and which is off? What's the matter with "on" and "off"?