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Hi all fellow penguinheads, I, very luckily exchanged my PIII in a very reasonable price. Now I am on a Core2Quad Shortly after setting it up, I have a few ...
  1. 06-25-2009 #1
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    Hi all fellow penguinheads,

    I, very luckily exchanged my PIII in a very reasonable price. Now I am on a Core2Quad Shortly after setting it up, I have a few issues:

    1. The sound ports on the front don't work while those on the back do.

    2. The board produces two beeps on startup which are very loud indeed. How do I get rid of them?

    3. It came with a mousepad and it stinks. I need help with this issue as well.

    I am using an unbranded one at the moment so it is just an Intel processor just unboxed. It is still in factory settings so maybe you people will be able to help me out easily. (Branded ones tend to have optimized settings.)
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    Congrats on the new rig.
    1. The sound ports on the front don't work while those on the back do.
    The front ports might be turned off in the bios maybe.
    2. The board produces two beeps on startup which are very loud indeed. How do I get rid of them?
    Not knowing make or model of the computer or the version of bios it has makes it hard to determine what the beep codes mean.
    3. It came with a mousepad and it stinks. I need help with this issue as well.
    LOL, you make it sound like the cat sprayed it.

    Have you decided yet what distro you are gonna run on it yet? Booting up a live CD and giving as a root command

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    and posting the results might be of some help. You might also want to give more details on make and model of unit and what version/name of bios it uses.

    Enjoy the new rig.
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    Please provide more information about the system, such as motherboard make/model, peripherals installed, video card and driver, Linux distribution+version, number and types/sizes of hard drives, etc.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rubberman View Post
    Please provide more information about the system, such as motherboard make/model, peripherals installed, video card and driver, Linux distribution+version, number and types/sizes of hard drives, etc.
    Linux distro? I will install openSUSE on it after the trials of Wild Games run out

    I wonder if there are other easy ways to diagnose the system, but here it goes:

    Intel Core2Quad processor Q8200 2.33 GHz (rid of 451 MHz )
    32 MB of Video memory
    2GB DDRII RAM
    250 GB HD (51200 MB of first four, about 32 GB fifth one, all FAT32 except the first (NTFS)

    Anyway I can reduce the noise? Lemme fire up the BIOS.

    LOL, you make it sound like the cat sprayed it.
    It smelled of petrol and I washed it, but no good.
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    If you have the motherboard documentation it will tell you what the beeps mean. They are diagnostic aides. They don't necessarily mean anything is broken. My Intel motherboard also beeps twice on bootup; once if I don't have my usb drive plugged in.

    Why the sound ports on the front don't work could be something as simple as not being connected. Don't know. I do know that the kmix sound mixer for KDE on my CentOS / RHEL system has a volume control for the front panel connectors, if I had some.

    How is the mouse pad connected? USB, PS2, or built into the keyboard?
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    I'm going to look into the BIOS for the beeps. I fixed the front audio ports through BIOS as well

    I wonder why you talk of mousepad being connected. Its the mouse that's connected, and in my case its PS/2

    The one I was talking about was a joke. Just a piece of cloth (or leather whatsoever) and smelled of petrol like all new pads do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by usamamuneeb View Post
    I wonder why you talk of mousepad being connected. Its the mouse that's connected, and in my case its PS/2

    The one I was talking about was a joke. Just a piece of cloth (or leather whatsoever) and smelled of petrol like all new pads do.
    Ah! We have all been thinking you got a mouse pad like you would get on a laptop for some strange reason. I think most people gave up on mice mats years ago in favour of wearing their desks down

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    Ah! Re. "mousepad" - I thought you meant a touchpad like on laptops! Doh! Homer must be visiting me! Personally, I prefer a trackball.
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    On laptops I use a wireless mouse instead of the mousepad. Whatever happened to the IBM joystick?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal343 View Post
    On laptops I use a wireless mouse instead of the mousepad. Whatever happened to the IBM joystick?
    Do you mean the "eraser tip" device in the keyboard? Some Dell systems, such as my Latitude D630, still have them. I use it quite frequently on my laptop - I actually prefer it to the touchpad most of the time.
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