Am 28.01.2011 13:33, schrieb Bruno Medeiros: > On 08/01/2011 09:14, Walter Bright wrote: >> Jonathan M Davis wrote: >>> On Saturday 08 January 2011 00:16:13 Walter Bright wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> LOL. The beeps for mine are documented in the motherboadr manual, but >>> the beeps are so hard to distinguish from one another, that it borders >>> on useless. A voice would certainly be better. >> >> Yes, what is the difference between a "slow beep" and a "fast beep"? >> >> While I'm ranting, does anyone else have trouble remembering which of O >> and | is on, and which is off? What's the matter with "on" and "off"? > > Hum, I never had problems with that: I always assumed the | meant a closed > electrical circuit (ie, you closed the circuit with the switch), thus > naturally > it meant "on". >
O looks like a *closed* circle to me so this isn't that helpful IMHO ;)