Disabling the beep

I thought I’d blogged about this before, but when talking about with Simon Sabin just now, I couldn’t find it.

Simon’s just blogged a couple of ways of stopping the beep from the command line. Here’s one using a User Interface.

Go to Device Manager, and make sure that “Show Hidden Devices” is checked in the View menu.

DeviceManager

Now you can find the Beep in the “Non-Plug and Play Drivers” section and edit its properties (setting it to Disabled).

Published Tue, Jun 30 2009 21:30 by Rob Farley
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:49 AM by Phil

# re: Disabling the beep

Been there done that, now just need to work how the same things is done in UBuntu :)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:48 AM by Adam Machanic

# re: Disabling the beep

I've been known to open up the chassis and simply cut the wires leading to the speaker. Simple, permanent, and totally effective :-)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:57 AM by Rob Farley

# re: Disabling the beep

I can just picture it:

Adam: "The red wire or the green wire?"

System clock: "Tick, tick, tick..."

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:12 PM by Adam Machanic

# re: Disabling the beep

Actually, I have a funny story along those lines, which I can't share in a public forum. If you show up to PASS track me down and I'll tell you all about it :-)

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