dude, if this works, you are a rock star. i've been fruitlessly searching the web for the answer to this after having been jostled out of some truly spectactular eric clapton blues inspired coding flow by the weird random keypress beep. thanks for the tip! - nickrr (at gregoweb,c/om)

Not me man - I got it as part of a mailing list and thought to pass it on! But it should work for ya! :)

had the exact same problem on my Dell Latitude C400 ... maybe it's the same part on the two laptops? Anyways glad to have a fix, thanks

Could be - I've never figured out why it happens: I was just glad to get rid of the beep :)

Hi -- had a similiar situation with my dell laptop also. I was getting that ridculous beep as my new mail notification although the control setting sound listed was one it should be. After going to device manager it got rid of the beep and also all of my other sounds! I can still music and such, its just that all my sounds are gone and I would really like to get my new mail sound happening. Thanks!

i'm soooo thankful for this information. Sometimes i have my laptop plugged into my computer speakers, and when it beeps, it's way louder than my music normally plays. Scares the heck out of me...

anyway, thanks!!

Hi - I have the beep problem too. I run Windows 98 & don't have options for "Show Hidden Devices"or "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" option in Device Manager.
Would anyone know how to fix it in Win 98 please?

TIA

None of the above recommendations work! Have any other ideas?

I'm in a dilema my IBM thinkpad T 20 has crashed
it will not boot up the power light comes on but the
screen dosen't light up.

Any one familiar with this scenario?
If you are and you have any advice or know of any websites with helpful information please post it on this site or email me gentoman1@cs.com

I'm not, nope - my experiences with ThinkPads started with the T41. Might want to try IBM, though.

My IBM T40 laptop has terrible audio. Almost inaudible at times. Is there something I can do to enhance the sound (besides connecting the PC speakers that were delivered with it from IBM). Ya think they knew the audio stinks?

Thank you so much for relaying this info. It worked like a charm, I have been calling IBM support about this and they told me there was nothing I could do about it.

I hope you don't mind I put up a similar guide on my own webpage, I linked to yours ofcourse. This info must be shared and spread as much as possible.

yaya - sure and thanks! After all, I boosted it from the ThinkPad mailing list and let the search engines spread the word :)

i have a t41 with a semi similar situation. i can boot up and barely see the startup ibm screen. the graphics card is fine but the screen blacklight wont turn on showing the screen as pitch black

--Any help is appreciated

thank you very much ... i use my laptop in live performance and the beep (which you so rightly point out has no function) has randomly startled me many many times ... good riddence!

I LOVE YOU!!!

I got a new T43 and I was going to get crazy becasue of this semi-random beeping.

thanks! thanks a lot!

p.s.: I linked this article too

when i turn on my computer there is an anoying beeping sound coming from the tower and the screen is black! it won't even start the computer. please help!!!!

Simply put: Huh?

hi...i have a dell laptop and i owned it for 4 years, i had a problem with beep codes beeping randomly when i boot my laptop and it started when my keyboard keys malfunction...can u help me figure out what is the problem?...thanks

Not a clue dude, although it sounds like a hardware issue more than a configuration one: I'd ping Dell's support forums and see what they say.

to Danny:

Plz check your memory. I guess that's something wrong with it.

to Shorty:

Check your BIOS settings. There should be an option for ignoring keyboard errors, as well as the start up beep.

Need help... T40 2373 72U XP Pro

Problem... the DVD/CDRom stopped working. I can see it in My Computer but it cant' write to or read from the CD or play DVDs. I want to reload my XP Pro OS to see if it's a driver contamination issue but, since the CD drive won't work so, I can't re-install from a CD. No floppy on the laptop.

I have been able to download an install drivers for an external CD-write on the USB port with an intent to load off the external CR Rom. But, I can't get the BIOS to accept the USB CD as first choice for boot up, it reverts to the internal HDD. I think I am missing something in making this BIOS change but, I don't know what.

Any suggestions are most appriciated. My computer skill set is about a 4 or 5 on a scale of ten.

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IBM Think Pad laptop

I reformat the HDD and Install Windows ME , after the installationof the Office Packges , it come up with a beep sound , till it reach the starting windows screen , but the keyboard in not functioning any more

please help

Call IBM or Lenovo for Tech Suppor - this is way beyond what this beep is talking about...

It worked like a charm as long as i run windows but if i run Linux mandriva the beep comes back if anyone knows how to configure the beep thing under linux i'd sure like to here about it.

COOL, thanks a lot!

Can anyone help just got ibm t41 can not load my ntl disk for internet comes up with lan card problem the only thing is the fix is to disable or remove have tryed disable the lan card but still not working then tryed to remove from Device manager but it will not let me can anyone help?

IBM Thinkpad X41

This tablet for some strange reason it does not log in unless it connected to the docking station. If anyone can help with this it it will really help me out a lot.

my ibm t40 post but won't boot...even the access ibm button won't work, help please!!!!

Thanks!
This incredible annoying sound is now gone!!!

My ibm t20 will not boot up. the access button doesn't work either. Any one know anything. Anybody?

So... is this at all connected with that MSN boop noise that lets you know it can't do something? Or the sound of that boop when you've run out of space to type? Because I've been doing random crap on the net or just on my compy and I'll hear a quiet warning "boop" as if I've done something wrong or something has popped up... but I can't trace it. IT HAPPENED AGAIN!!

If you've been typing and hearing random Beeps, I'd say this is the cause of it. I can't speak to specific applications, but for me it would Bloop from *any* app, if I hit the magic combo of keys...

This is amazing! The most annoying beep in the world is gone. Thanks to the one who figured it out!

When I had had the laptop for one week I called IBM/lenovo and asked them how to remove the beep. I talked to several people who knew exactly what I spoke of, they were annoyed too. Those IDIOTS said there was no solution. I guess the organisation is too big, all the creativity is gone and no one cares or understands anything...

Thanks for the beep tip. It was annoying me to no end and this worked on my Dell Inspiron.

My IBM T20 wont start up..The message said .......Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corupt..[ [system 32/drivers/pci.sys] You can atempt to repair this file bt starting windows set up using [the original set up Cd rom].......Select .. R.. at the first screen to start repair........The screen lights up and IBM coms on but then the message above apears...It sounds like I need the origonal or a copy of the set up CD rom it came with when new... My T 20 says windows 2000 pro on the bottom but has been upgraded to win xp pro...I gues this start up CD is just for the IBM laptop...I dont have one... What type of set up disk came with the T 20 and where can I burn a copy to use on my laptop to try to get it to start up...I apreciate any HELP!!! regards.. Tom

My Dell XPS M1710 laptop started beeping randomly recently. First it was just a random "boop" then is started doing consecutive "Boop Boop Boop"... like 3-4 in a row (each lasting about half a second or so). It had beeped before a couple of months ago but only one.. not a series like now and it also went away on its own. The beeping sound was also coming from some unknown internal speaker as it being a laptop the speakers I use are internal.. but I was hearing the beeping sound from somewhere deeper inside (I had put my headphones in the jack so that no sound would come out of the speakers... but I would still hear a load "boop" sound from inside the laptop).

So I tried the directions up above. I went to the Device Manager (Start-> Control Panel-> System-> Hardware Tab-> Device Manager)... show hidden devices... etc.. as listed above and clicked on the Beep device. I went to the driver tap and clicked stop on the stop button (there was a start and stop button with the start button grayed out.. it was currently in the start mode). It gave me an error message say something like "error.. device not responding in a timely matter" and I could see the word "stopping" in the device window. After about a minute or so it eventually stopped. Haven't heard a boop since then. So it seems (as of now) that this has fixed the issue for me. Thanks OP for the post cause the beeping was seriously getting on my nerves.

My computer, a Dell Inspiron 9400, did the beep whenever it connected to the internet. The problem was, was that it did this during school (every day during an entire semester!!!) and everyone in the room (including the teacher) knew when I was online!!!

Thanks to your little trick, the beep now seems to be gone! Too bad I didnt find this sooner as I graduate in 3 days! Will be very nice for grad school though!

Thanks a MILLION!

My computer randomly beeps... i have a dell windows xp. i have been on the phone with them a number of times.. its not keyboard,speakers,memory. Does anyone know what would be the problem?

This worked great for my T60p. That beep is not tied into Window's volume at all and always plays WAY louder than any other sound. Very strange design decision by IBM.

Thanks! No more embarrassing moments in coffee shops for me and my Fujitsu Lifebook (Vista Home Prem)

More importantly, why is the source of this annoying sound hidden so deep? I will never understand MS.

Uh, it's not Microsoft - it's the OEM that builds the machine that turns this on and/or has hardware that causes the beep.

Not for anything, but I'm sorta sick of watching applications crash because they're written like shit and then Microsoft having to take the blame for it.

It's like getting an error when you tell a calculator to divide by 0 and it shows an error... any application can look like shit if you try hard enough!

my thinkpad t20 has no sound i'm running it on windows XP. says the drivers are fine but i still have no sound. can someone please help me.

YES MY NAME IS REALLY THE HOLIDAY NAME. I HAVE
A DELL COMPUTER, AND FOR THE LAST THREE DAYS
I HAVE HAD THIS HORRIBLE BEEPING, ESPECIALLY
WHEN I USE MY MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS 6 FOR
EMAILING, AND IT WILL BEEP WHEN I DELITE ANY
THING, ALSO BEEPS AT TIMES IN THE KEY BOARD.
I HAVE CHARTER.NET FOR MY SERVER, AND THEY DON'T
KNOW WHAT IT IS, IT IS NOT FROM THEM. THEN
THESE TWO THINGS SHOWED UP, IN THE EMAIL UNDER
DRAFTS; JUNK MAIL? AND SOMETHING CALLED
PHISHING . NONE OF THIS IS FROM CHARTER. HOW
DO I GET RID OF THESE , AND THE BEEPS. IT IS
DRIVING ME NUTS........

some one plz email me with a fix.

i have a IBM thinkpad running windows 2000.
the battery is gone in it but it was running off just power for a while. then a few days it stopped booting up.

the boot list changed and tried to boot from cd-rom and there is no cd-rom drive on the laptop.
i switched it and it worked fine again and then today it won't boot at all. i press the on button and all the lights come up and then shuts off again.

any help or am i doomed?

thank you so much, i've forgotten how badly this pissed me off. i guess it happens because i *roll* my fingers from key to key instead of a *punching* effect. thank you thank you thank you.

Omigosh.. The exact fix I was looking for all these days..

Cheers!!

My older model thinkpad beeps in this sequence... 1beep,3beeps,3beeps,1beep when i attempt to start up. Then the screen remains black. It's this close to the trash!!! Thanks for reading.

THANK YOU!! I use my headphones to listen to music and when the beep happens, it's so loud in my headphones and it scares the CRAP out of me.

Hi, I've been looking for a way to turn that stupid beep off. So far, the solution given here is what all the forums are saying...but I can't figure out where the Device Manager is. I'm not sure if I'm really that technologically inept, but, either way, I can't find it. Some sites say it's called the System Device Manager and it's in the control panel. I've looked there and can't find it, and just so you know I'm not an idiot, I do know there are two views. I did see a System, but when I clicked on that it was pretty much just the information about my computer. Nothing about showing hidden anythings. If anyone could help me find where the elusive Device Manager is I'd be extremely grateful. I hate that beep.

It depends on the OS you're using... in XP it's... Um. Er. I don't remember :( But in Vista it's one of the nodes in Computer Management (via Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management).

HTH!

I found the Device Manager on my Dell in the System Folder of the Control Panel. After the System window came up I clicked on Hardware and Device Manager was there. Show Hidden Devices is under View at the top.

Hope this helps!!

I'm thinking this fix is bogus. This just turns off the beep - it doesn't solve the problem. Why was the beep happening in the first place?? My laptop is beeping when I'm not even touching it. That tells me that something is wrong internally. This "fix" is just a bandaid.

Uh, no, it's not a bandaid. This doesn't fix a machine that is beeping on it's own without being touched - your ThinkPad has a problem.

That the keyboard on a ThinkPad is emitting a beep is an unknown, but it also doesn't cause an error... and as far as bandaids go, this works well.

wow it really works and that annoying beep is gone... thanks so much! by the way I have a thinkpad z61m, the same problem, the same solution.

This didn't work for me. I get a beep from the bios on startup about something which can't be rectified. But I have a last ditch solution for anyone else in the same boat...

Buy a headphone extension cable from Tandy / Dick Smith / whoever. Plug the cable into the laptop, but don't plug the headphones into the other end. NO beep!

Then after your operating system has started, you can plug in the headphones or unplug the extension cable.

My IBM was beeping everytime I moved the mouse. It stopped thanks to the beep fix. Wow who ever would have thought they would make a 'device' called beep!!!!

Yeah! Almost 3 months of annoying beeps and suddenly I stumbled upon your blog post. You are the man! Thank you.

Thank you, I think you saved my hearing and my sanity! While I listened to music on my headphones at work, I was periodically jolted by a beep while I was typing, and I had no idea what was causing it.