How can I stop the annoying voice on my Asus motherboard? -- revisted
Category: Computing
by Dennis Faas, infopackets editor
http://www.infopackets.com
Yesterday's Visitor Feedback posed the question,
"How
can I stop the annoying voice on my Asus motherboard during the boot up
process?"
First, let me say that I'm
severely
impressed with the readers of the Gazette -- so impressed, you deserve two
Smilies.
All kidding aside, you guys sure know how to solve a problem! And
it's also reassuring that many of you have computer systems that are
equipped with decent motherboards (yes, Asus makes good quality
motherboards).
Anyhoo, the answer to this question has been solved: the
annoying voice that plagues Michael H. is actually a feature in the BIOS
which can either be disabled completely, or customized with a different
voice. I didn't receive any feedback on how to customize the voice, so
I'll just tell you how to disable the darn thing.
As Alan H. writes:
" The feature that Michael is referring to is the
Asus Post Reporter. It is a feature of the Asus P4B motherboard
(and on other models from Asus), and it can be disabled in the CMOS (BIOS)
setup.
To get into the CMOS, press and hold the DEL key as soon
as the computer is powered on.
In the Advanced Settings menu, there is a field under
I/O Device Configuration called Speech Post Reporter and it can be
enabled or disabled here. "
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