[Tutor] No beep from winsound.Beep(500, 500)

[Chris Fuller]

Something to keep in mind is that the audio output of your computer and the 
system speaker are independent.  Sometimes the BELL character (ACSII 0x07) 
will sound the system speaker, spending on your OS, drivers, etc.

The winsound docs say it's the speaker, which is connected to the motherboard 
with an odd four pin connector (with only two wires).  It's normally only used 
during boot up, so it could have been left disconnected and not missed.

Cheers

On Saturday 19 December 2009, Richard D. Moores wrote:
> My laptop, a Toshiba Satellite running Python 3.1 and Vista 64-bit
> 
> SP2, with the speakers on and otherwise working, won't give me a beep:
> >>> from winsound import Beep
> >>> Beep(500, 500)
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>     Beep(500, 500)
> RuntimeError: Failed to beep
> 
> Please give me some hints as to what I can do about this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dick Moores
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