Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
When I built my latest PC, I saw in the MB manual that it would use speech synthesis on the PC speaker to report errors. So I tried to power on the PC without having plugged either CPU or RAM and it started to say "NO CPU FOUND! NO CPU FOUND!" in a loop with a hilarious Asian accent and the kind of rasping voice that used to characterized old DOS games. Pretty fun ;)
That's a heckuva lot better than an undocumented beep pattern which is what I got.