From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 22 03:54:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19158 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:54:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19153 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 03:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id MAA13653 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:54:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:54:05 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: For Whom The Beep Tolls Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 22 Oct 1998 12:54:02 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 43 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Newsgroups: xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx From: ahoerter@netcom.com Subject: For Whom The Beep Tolls Organization: ICGNetcom Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:13:33 GMT So this project that I'm working on has a requirement to migrate to WinNT... all ObNTAngst aside, I encountered one particular quirk that baffled, amused, and frightened me in one swell foop. After installing En Tee and a few in-house apps onto a fairly beefy machine, I make a few adjustments which, as with so many things, require a reboot to become effective. Dutifully restarting the box, I'm once again greeted by an invitation for a three-finger salute... but before I can lay a hand on the keyboard, the screen goes blue while the speaker emits a rapid squeal of agony. Boggle. Okay, what seems to have been in memory at the time... BEEP.SYS. Whuh? But that couldn't possibly... must be a random thing. Reboot. Squeal. Blue screen. On a lark, I disable the Beep device driver, which controls (wait for it...) the system speaker. No more blue screen. Works fine[0]. Yes, friends and neighbors, boys and girls-- my PC speaker crashed NT. It's pathetic in a sick sort of way; an "enterprise computing environment" brought to its knees by a beep of doom. Almost makes my old digs at a local ISP seem like Recovery. At least UNIX fails in simple and explainable ways, most of the time. -andrew ("not with a beep, but with a whimper") [0] "fine" being entirely a relative thing, in this case. -- "You'd be better advised to simply run along and contract a disfiguring disease of some sort, never to be heard from again." -- Geoff Miller ------- End of forwarded message ------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message