On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > Be thankful. I have a Soyo motherboard that beeps both through the > > internal speaker and the on-board sound system. It is so load that I > > swear the dead were waking up. > > I need the beep for an alarm system and cannot rely on the speakers > being switched on. Maybe system beeps were removed due to patent issues. Considering the current patent system, it would not surprise me...