Vista - Long Beep After Startup, please help

Hello, this is my first post here. This forum is nice!

Anyway, i have a Motherboard Asus P5KC with integrated audio (Realtek)
- Vista Home Premium. So last night i connected my bass to the mic input
but i believe the signal was too strong because the sound was clipping
bad. So when i played a little harder, suddenly the pc started to make a
continuous beep sound. Anyway, i figured that out, for some reason the
PC Beep option was all the way up! (Right Click on the Realtek icon on
the taskbar -> Sound -> Speakers -> Properties -> Levels -> PC Beep). So
i turned PC beep to 0 and then hit the mute icon next to the bar as
well. So that took care of the constant beeping. However, i get a loud
continuous beep (same pitch) that lasts around 6 seconds everytime i
start my pc. The beep occurs at the end of the hourglass screen, just
before it plays the Windows Startup sound. It is really annoying and
loud. I have tried everything. Uninstall the realtek drivers from device
manager and programs. Then reinstall them. Also i have tried disabling
the audio device from the bios then uninstalling drivers, then
re-enabling it and reinstalling drivers but nothing. I have also tried
to turn off the beep from regedit (i saw it in another thread) and i
have also tried to stop the beep from the device manager -> show hidden
devices -> non Plug n play devices -> Beep -> Startup = disabled. But
nothing worked. And it is driving me crazy! Could it be that my sound
circuit now has a problem or is it something fixable? Please i need your
help.


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Oh, i forgot to mention, everything works fine though, i mean all sounds
are played the way they were meant to. Only that beep is wrong.
Everything else works fine.


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Hm, i never thought of that. I'll give it a try now. What will be lost?


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Hello again, problem _not_ solved by removing the battery. Any other
ideas?


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Paul Montgomery;90091 Wrote:Done. Anything on the subject?


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Paul Montgomery;90193 Wrote:Hi, thanks for your reply. So, i disconnected the speakers (my speakers
in fact are the ones integrated in the screen - just stereo speakers)
and restarted. 2 secs after i turned it on there was the usual
low-volume short beep from the pc speaker showing my hardware is ok. So
windows load normal and no beep as expected since the speakers were
disconnected. Then i reconnected them, all sounds ok, restarted and
there was that awful sound again. I don't really mess with that but
could it be something with the registry? An option that wouldn't change
although i uninstalled the drivers? Thanks


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Paul Montgomery;90265 Wrote:
My friend Paul, i guess pc's are beyond my comprehension although i
study electrical engineering. I thought why not try to download new
drivers from the realtek site? Although when i did this trough Driver
Update in windows it showed they are up to date. So i downloaded the
drivers (there was a warning that the drivers were general purpose and
that you should check your motherboard company's site to find the newest
for your occasion). So i checked asus and the drivers there were even
older than the ones in the cd that came with the motherboard..go figure.
Anyway i downloaded them installed them and everything is fine now. I
have PC beep option all the way up and no beep is coming through the
speakers. I took a minute to think what you said. PC beep was something
different than i had in mind. By turning it to 0 i just covered the
problem. That's why it would beep at startup - it hadn't loaded my
profile yet that had the pc beep off. The tragedy is that the drivers
that were in the cd and that worked just fine until before "the
incident" wouldn't work right no matter how many uninstalls and deletes
i did. I don't get it really. Anyway, now it works and i will stop
experimenting so much. I hope that helps anyone else in the future. I
really appreciate your and Yan's time and efforts to help. See ya.


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