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Old 02-17-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Beep sound is gone!

Hey everyone. I recently upgraded to Ultimate 64-bit on my HP laptop. I was recently using Dev C++ and when I tried running one of my scripts I noticed that the beeps that I had added wouldn't work. So I checked my device manager and noticed that the system beep wasn't there:
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And yes I know that most people try to get RID of it, but I really need it for my programming class.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

ok that may be true that your system beep device is not there. So your program does the beep though the pc speaker, the old ms-dos style beep speaker, instead of through the windows directsound api? I'm having a problem understanding why you just don't write your program to use directsound, there's a beep in there that'll work with any machine that has directx installed... well there's more than beeps you can make but all I'm suggesting is that you should write your program the correct way if you're writing it for windows.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

Well you see, unfortunately I'm still a noob at programming so the only beep that I've learned (at school) so far is the /a in c++.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

Ok, I got some linkage for you to look at:
Beeps: Sound in C++ - C++

Check out using the sound chip here: Play a MIDI voice (Dev C++ console program) - cplusplus
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

I checked out the links but I don't know much about c++ so I can't really make much use of that, but thanks anyways.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

not sure if this is what ur lookin for..but try it anyways...right click your system speaker on the start menu...and click playback devices..click speakers and then properties>>>click on the levels tab now and unmute it from there...

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Re: Beep sound is gone!

I checked it and it's already at 100%. Thanks anyway.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

FWIW - I ran into this same problem and checked out MSDN (Beep Function (Windows)) - it turns out the Beep function used to create these lovely system beeps was removed in Vista x64, though it's still there on Vista x86. Bummer, eh?
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

Thanks Drew! I can finally rest in peace knowing that I didn't do something stupid to get rid of the beep, but that it was actually windows which got rid of it.
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Re: Beep sound is gone!

Sad... is there a way to install the Beep back?
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