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Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Motherboards have speakers?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 49 points 10 months ago

Are you trying to make me feel old?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it.

[-] jaaake@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Back in my day, that used to be the only way a computer could produce sound. Later on you could purchase a specialized sound card that would take up a slot in your motherboard.

[-] jayknight@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

I thought I was the cool kid when I got my SoundBlaster 16!

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The anticipation as you figure out a new IRQ and DMA configuration so you could play with your new toy

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

My dad used to disable the motherboard speaker because the noises games made back then were more annoying than fun. We eventually got a soundcard, and that was awesome.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Damn, I feel old now....

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And you could plug in your joystick into the soundcard, because where else would you put joystick, right? Perfectly logical.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They do, but it’s a very simple speaker that’s really more of a buzzer than what you might think of as a speaker.

Many motherboards use a combination of beeps to report hardware errors if you fail on power on.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 10 months ago

Bleepers

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Beep beep

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago

386 era machines often had a 4 inch speaker in the front panel. It couldn't do much. Some main boards still come with headers for a speaker, some even come with an electret beeper

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

A good number do, but you won't hear anything during normal operation. If your vomputer has ever beeped at you when you try to turn it on at 0% battery, accessed the bios, etc., there's a good chance that was the motherboard speaker.