beep

[dedndave]

i was thinking it may be more related to a hardware issue, somehow

[GregL]

Beep works fine in x64, I just tried it.

They must be saying the sc config beep start= disabled command is not supported. ??

[Mark Jones]

Which x64? I'm using XP Pro x64, and Beep() definitely is not working. The driver is apparently there and started (Beep.sys), but calling the function makes no sound.

[dedndave]

i don't mean this as an insult, Mark
are the speaker wires connected ?
the reason i say that is, it seems to me that if the OS did not support the function, it would burp at you and say so

[Mark Jones]

That's a logical conclusion Dave, but this mainboard has a built-in piezo device. (And the function worked in XP x32 prior.) :wink

[dedndave]

ok - just checkin - lol
i was trying to figure out what is different about your machine that makes it nonfunctional
wires are a good place to start (you be surprised how many "no sound" problems are related to wiring)
because these newer OS's don't allow direct i/o with hardware, it makes it harder to troubleshoot
but, isolating the problem is a little like playing sherlock holmes
when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

[GregL]

Mark,

Windows 7 Beta x64.  I used Pelle's C and created an x64 executable.

[sinsi]

32-bit code in 64-bit Windows 7 works too - the beep comes through the soundcard

Code Select Expand


include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc
.code
start:
    invoke Beep,750,300
    exit
end start


[GregL]

The beep came through the sound card on Windows 7 x64 too.

[ThexDarksider]

I remember something when I was coding in basic in 3rd grade, when I had win98 the PC speaker worked fine, however with XP (x32) needed an additional .sys file that was included within the installation. Maybe you need something similar here. :toothy I'm not really sure about that, it was 5 years ago lol.

[Mark Jones]

Under device manager, hidden devices, there is a Beep driver, enabled, started, in both x32 and x64 WinXP, however no sound is coming from the latter.

This is not an isolated incident:

https://forums.codegear.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14706   <--- no solution
http://forums.silverfrost.com/viewtopic.php?t=1234   <--- no solution
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic44614.html   <--- no solution
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forumarchives/NETvc/Jul2005/post23278925.asp   <--- no solution
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=356978   <--- solution: not supported.

This was meant to be informative, not a question. :wink

[dedndave]

so, their solution is to change the documentation rather than releasing a hotfix
talk about friggen lazy

[GregL]

After reading those links Mark posted, it looks like it doesn't work on Vista x64 but does on Windows 7 x64.  So ... they fixed it on Windows 7.

[BlackVortex]

That's great news !  The beep will live on !!