itsjustme

Thank you for answering. I ran the beep test and it does beep. All other
sounds are working on my system. I still can not get it to beep in my app
though. If I have an error, ie I type a letter instead of a number, I just
hear the softest clicking sound. I used DOS on my last system which had
Windows ME and I always heard the beep if there was an error. The
application is .exe, the files I use are FMT files and .BAT files. I have
called Dell and Microsoft and NO ONE will help me with this.
Any ideas? Please?
Thank you!

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> I just ran a test - I ran a small MS-DOS program which basically just beeps
> the PC speaker. It runs fine on Vista, and produces a nice loud beep, same
> as on DOS (internally, it is just displaying a ^G (0x07) character).
>
> So beeping, as such, works fine on Vista. To find out why your app doesn't
> beep, we'll need to know more about the app and your environment. Are all
> other sounds working okay, on your machine?
>
> You can test a basic beep function by doing this:
>
> go to a Command Prompt in Vista
> type the command "command" and press <enter> - this starts COMMAND.COM, the
> MS-DOS Command Processor.
> type "echo" and a space
> hold down the Control Key and press G, now release both keys at once
> the command line should now read "echo ^G"
> now press the enter key
> You should hear a beep from the speaker.
> type "exit" twice to exit the command processor and comand prompt.
>
> If this works and your application doesn't. there's something unusual about
> the way the app is making sounds.
>
> If you can't get a beep from echoing ^G at a command line, there's something
> unusual about your whole system; since this works okay on other Vista
> machines, ie, it beeps.
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
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