"chris" said:
I think he means there is a BIOS setting "Speech POST Reporter"
and it can be set to [disabled].
But, the thing is, the original Vocal POST implementations, didn't
always work the way they were supposed to. There are some motherboard
models which will still emit vocal post messages, even when disabled.
Some of the newer boards have two BIOS settings. One controls
error messages, and the other controls the nuisance messages, like
the "now booting" nonsense. These refinements don't exist in the
BIOS design of the older motherboards.
In terms of options:
1) Try the BIOS control first - it might work or might not.
2) The Vocal POST voice samples are stored in a socketed 8 pin
DIP. You could power off the computer and pull out the 8 pin
DIP chip. I bet that would stop it
3) There is Winbond Voice Editor software, for editting the
contents of the 8 pin DIP EEPROM. You can record over the
voice samples with a microphone and your sound card or built
in sound. When finished, the Winbond software compresses the
Voice samples and will write them back to the 8 pin EEPROM
chip. Since the interface to the chip is sitting on the SMBUS,
the time to write the 8 pin chip takes forever (SMBUS runs
at 10KHz, serially). When it starts to write to the EEPROM,
watch a TV program or two while you wait.
This is an example download. I don't know if the download page
has a version just for your motherboard or not. Presumably,
the SMBUS driver may depend on how each motherboard is designed,
so I cannot guarantee that this version will work properly for
you. This is roughly a 17MB download.
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/winbond/865875_veditor_M316.zip
4) You could use a separate sound card. Since the Vocal POST
electrical signal is permanently wired to the "Line_out" connector
on your motherboard, if you use a separate sound card, you
will not be able to hear the error messages from the
Vocal POST.
Here is a sample output from the Voice Editor software, as it
prepares a bitmap to burn into the 8 pin W55xxx type EEPROM chip.
I presume the one you will be zapping, will be something like
"postok". I've never used this software, so I cannot tell you
how well it works.
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\T5.WMD Len=320 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\H5.WMD Len=320 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\fanfail.WMD Len=48240 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\nokb.WMD Len=48560 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\nocpu.WMD Len=53840 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\nofdd.WMD Len=56560 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\memfail.WMD Len=56640 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\overheat.WMD Len=60320 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\voltage.WMD Len=62240 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\vgafail.WMD Len=63040 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\cpufail.WMD Len=63600 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\nohdd.WMD Len=68000 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\bootos.WMD Len=84160 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\overclock.WMD Len=84560 Bits
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\postok.WMD Len=85760 Bits
Total Used ROM Size: 827.59 KBits
W583 Power Speech Assembler Ver0.00-092600l Compiling completed.
G:\ASUS-ATX\ASUSSPEECH\aaa.obj - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
Speech IC Body : W583S60
Speech Body ROM Size : 2097152 Bits
Total Used ROM Size : 847456 Bits
The Rest of ROM Size : 1249696 Bits
Used Instruction Size: 5696 Bits
Used Voice Data Size : 836160 Bits
Have fun,
Paul