re: Tones Prior to Start UP Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 7:41 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tom Evans (2 messages posted) I finally found out what the tones were when I left the wireless LAN card out during a boot-up. The sounds were not there. It appears that the tones are an indication that a PCMCIA card is inserted. It is much louder that any tones I get when a piece of hardware is connected when running Windows XP. I did find a way to silence the tones. Go to the Control Panel and click on the PCMCIA icon. Now click on the Global Settings tab. Click in the "Disable PC card sound effects." Click on Apply. That should silence these tones. On Friday, December 29, 2006 at 2:14 am, Jacob6601 wrote: >Get an older (or newer) boot disk that will not go into 98 proper. If you still hear >the tones, it is a BIOS error and you need to look to compaq to determine what it >is. If no sound there, go to control panel - sounds - and look for start up in the >list. > >Also, be aware that two tones may just mean "system normal". My hp sounds two tones >with any hardware change, until it is validated. You may enter the BIOS and be sure >"display BIOS messages", or something like that, is turned on. Written in response to: re: Tones Prior to Start UP (Jacob6601: Friday, December 29, 2006 at 2:14 am) Responses to this message: re: Tones Prior to Start UP (Jacob6601: Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 12:39 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Tones Prior to Start UP (Tom Evans: Thu, Dec 28, 2006, 7:32 pm) re: Tones Prior to Start UP (Jacob6601: Fri, Dec 29, 2006, 2:14 am) re: Tones Prior to Start UP (Tom Evans: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 7:41 am) re: Tones Prior to Start UP (Jacob6601: Sun, Dec 31, 2006, 12:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum