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Old January 19th 05, 07:40 PM
Espen
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Default Create pc speaker beep wav file

Hi

At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want the pc
speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive mail. How
can this be achieved?

Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any settings
which control on what device the sound is played? If the first is the case,
where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?

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Espen


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Old January 19th 05, 07:56 PM
ME
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Default Create pc speaker beep wav file

you can do this if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Go to the
Options and put a check box next to "Play sound when new messages arrive" in
the appropriate tab. For the sound go to Sound in Control Panel and play
with the settings


"Espen" wrote in message
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Hi

At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want the
pc speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive mail.
How can this be achieved?

Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any settings
which control on what device the sound is played? If the first is the
case, where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?

--
Espen




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Old January 20th 05, 12:41 PM
Espen Johannessen
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Default Create pc speaker beep wav file

Yes, exactly, and one can choose a wav-file to be played when new mail
arrives. The thing is that I don't know about any wav-file which plays a
pc-speaker beep. Do you?

--
Espen

"ME" wrote in message
...
you can do this if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Go to the
Options and put a check box next to "Play sound when new messages arrive"
in the appropriate tab. For the sound go to Sound in Control Panel and
play with the settings


"Espen" wrote in message
...
Hi

At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want the
pc speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive mail.
How can this be achieved?

Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any
settings which control on what device the sound is played? If the first
is the case, where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?

--
Espen






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Old January 20th 05, 10:28 PM
ME
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Default Create pc speaker beep wav file

do a search for .wav files then play each one 'til you find out?

"Espen Johannessen" wrote in message
...
Yes, exactly, and one can choose a wav-file to be played when new mail
arrives. The thing is that I don't know about any wav-file which plays a
pc-speaker beep. Do you?

--
Espen

"ME" wrote in message
...
you can do this if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Go to the
Options and put a check box next to "Play sound when new messages arrive"
in the appropriate tab. For the sound go to Sound in Control Panel and
play with the settings


"Espen" wrote in message
...
Hi

At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want the
pc speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive mail.
How can this be achieved?

Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any
settings which control on what device the sound is played? If the first
is the case, where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?

--
Espen








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Old January 21st 05, 12:19 AM
Admiral Q
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Default Create pc speaker beep wav file

If you don't have external sound speakers connected to a sound card, its a
"mute" point (pun intended) - as the PC Speaker on the motherboard is
controlled via hardware interrupts sent from the computer BIOS/CMOS - so
what you need is a piece of software which intercepts sound interrupts to a
non-existent sound card and transforms them into interrupts into the BIOS,
so the BIOS can send the beep-signals to the internal motherboard speaker.
In the younger years of PC's, just when multimedia was making its debuted,
there were such utilities as the multimedia sound card/speakers were an
expensive add-on - go a "Google" search, there may be an old website or bbs
site that still has one. Or if you want a challenge, find some old DOS
program code for say DOS 5.0 or 6.22 in Qbasic possibly and port the code to
VB or VC, but be careful, application hardware interrupts are not allowed in
WinNT, 2k or XP - all hardware interrupts must go thru the appropriate
WinAPI and let WinNT, 2k or XP control the interrupt.

--
Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!


"ME" wrote in message
...
do a search for .wav files then play each one 'til you find out?

"Espen Johannessen" wrote in message
...
Yes, exactly, and one can choose a wav-file to be played when new mail
arrives. The thing is that I don't know about any wav-file which plays a
pc-speaker beep. Do you?

--
Espen

"ME" wrote in message
...
you can do this if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express. Go to the
Options and put a check box next to "Play sound when new messages

arrive"
in the appropriate tab. For the sound go to Sound in Control Panel and
play with the settings


"Espen" wrote in message
...
Hi

At one computer I don't have speakers. The thing is then that I want

the
pc speaker to play a beep or something when I for instance receive

mail.
How can this be achieved?

Will this be controlled by the .wav file itself, or are there any
settings which control on what device the sound is played? If the

first
is the case, where can I get a .wav file that plays pc speaker beeps?

--
Espen










 




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