tower BEEPS when MSN alert signals

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Hello all...was wondering if anyone else had experienced
this problem.

I'm running XP and the most current version of MSN
Messenger.

For some reason, everytime my MSN beeps, there is beep
that comes out of the back of my tower, and NOT the
speakers. I am running a no sound scheme on XP anyway,
but MSN and AIM have always sounded alright.

the ONLY thing I can think of that may have caused this is
that I installed a new USB 2.0 card and drivers the other
day as well as a external midi controller (which installed
some additional drivers).

1. These drivers may have caused this problem.
2. The beeping is a warning that I may have knocked
somthing loose inside the case, or that there is some sort
of internal error (although one short beep doesn't
indicate any errors according to BIOS codes)
3. Or three, since i have XP SP2, and it updates my
machine every morning at 3am, that this may have changed
things?

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks again

Ffanatic

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger (More info?)

Hi,

It was probably set up to sounds that didn't exist and this would cause this issue.

Since you installed the "new one" (I assume MSN Messenger 6.2), these were added properly for
you. Glad to hear it.
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"Ffanatic" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2aa801c4b13e$8c00d510$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Well, I think I figured it out...I had a VERY old version
> of messenger (4.7 I think), and THAT icon was the only one
> showing up, so I when I clicked to open messenger, the old
> version is the one that loaded, and I guess the alerts did
> not come through the speakers, but through the CPU as a
> BIOS beep.
>
> So, when running the most current version, there are no
> problems
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hello all...was wondering if anyone else had experienced
>>this problem.
>>
>>I'm running XP and the most current version of MSN
>>Messenger.
>>
>>For some reason, everytime my MSN beeps, there is beep
>>that comes out of the back of my tower, and NOT the
>>speakers. I am running a no sound scheme on XP anyway,
>>but MSN and AIM have always sounded alright.
>>
>>the ONLY thing I can think of that may have caused this
> is
>>that I installed a new USB 2.0 card and drivers the other
>>day as well as a external midi controller (which
> installed
>>some additional drivers).
>>
>>1. These drivers may have caused this problem.
>>2. The beeping is a warning that I may have knocked
>>somthing loose inside the case, or that there is some
> sort
>>of internal error (although one short beep doesn't
>>indicate any errors according to BIOS codes)
>>3. Or three, since i have XP SP2, and it updates my
>>machine every morning at 3am, that this may have changed
>>things?
>>
>>any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks again
>>
>>Ffanatic
>>.
>>