system beep redirection to sound card

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Does anyone know how to redirect the system beep to the
sound card like windows 98? The software package we run
triggers the windows default sound in 98 but not in 2000.
The software manufacturer states that they only trigger
the system speaker. The reason behind this is that when an
error is generated from the software, we have a custom
sound to indicate a problem. Since 2000 is not triggering
any events, no sound is played and goes unnoticed until
looking at the screen. Any help would be appreciated since
I have pretty much exhausted web searching and dont have
any money in the budget to pay the software manufacturer
for a modifycation.
 
It maybe that the software was written for/in win98 and as such doesnt
support win2k calls.
Presumably youve checked the settings in cntrl.panel/sounds ?
 
The software wasnt written for any particular flavor of
windows. The company claims they never even knew a sound
triggered in 98 since they only send a response to the pc
speaker. Somewhere on the microsoft knowledge base I read
that 98 redirects system beeps to the sound system. In
2000 I assigned a sound to every event listed in the
control panel with no luck when the software notified of
an error. All of the other events did fire like open
program and close program.The software package itself was
written in C++ and powerbuilder.
 
Scott said:
The software wasnt written for any particular flavor of
windows. The company claims they never even knew a sound
triggered in 98 since they only send a response to the pc
speaker. Somewhere on the microsoft knowledge base I read
that 98 redirects system beeps to the sound system. In
2000 I assigned a sound to every event listed in the
control panel with no luck when the software notified of
an error. All of the other events did fire like open
program and close program.The software package itself was
written in C++ and powerbuilder.
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That (at the risk of being redundant) "sounds" like the application doesn't
call the correct Windows events (methods) when "sounding" an alert - instead
of calling an event, it is calling the speaker. I don't see any real
workaround except to get a newer version of the application or check with
the vendor's technical support.

Some of the older motherboards had a connector to send speaker beeps to the
sound card. You might be able to get by with that workaround, but it's not a
generic solution to cover all workstations.
 
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