Date: 22 Oct 1998 12:54:02 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: For Whom The Beep Tolls Message-ID: <xzpn26oooj9.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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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
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