One of my friends used to have a Socket AM2 or 939 board with the same exact feature. It's not very common as far as I know, and I think you can only find it on AMD-based boards. 🤣

Haha, the first time it happened to me I got freaked out too, but yeah, there was a period of time when this was added to some motherboards. I found it more annoying than anything as i could never tell what the hell the lady was saying.

Yes, the couple of motherboards i found this feature on were both 939.

EDIT: Now that i think about it they were not 939, they were both Socket A's as i remember they were Athlon XP's.

I thought that Aopen had some boards using this feature.

I bet others did too like Asus.

This one here is a Soyo SY-K7VTA-B. It just shut up after i plugged a floppy in it, but i wonder how many things it cans say.

It is creepy when a system suddenly "talks" to you.

And also it's kind of creepy when the cd-rom tray opens by itself, especially while in dos command prompt or while defragging in dos and then it closes by itself. And then it opens again...stays open for a while, then suddenly closes. ... Possible wetting moments...

Other than that, I remember reading about BIOS messages that "talks" instead of beeping, in certain motherboard manual. I think that's a cool idea, and I wish they continued with that and allowing us to upload our own .wav files for certain events like for eg.

1. When a Video Card not inserted properly, "Insert the *$&$ing Graphics Card...Properly, you *$&*#$!"

2. When rams are bad,
"Your Memories Are F*#&ed Up! Get a life!"

or

3. If the CPU is overclocked with a crazy multiplier,
"What are you, nuts? I can't run any faster, you *@#&*$!"

Uh...then again, you might not want to record such comments. It's doubtful you won't break it into pieces, when you're frustrated mad figuring out what went wrong where..

I guess we should only really start worrying if they say the following:

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us!"

😁

I'd be more worried if it said 'I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave'

I'd be even MORE worried if it said, "You're quite good at turning me on." >_>;;;

Or if it says this :

"Look at you, sucker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?".

As I said - it's all too creepy!

😁

Lol! I had that happen to me as well one time 😜
Can't remember what it said but I remember there was an option in the BIOS to make it beep again 😜

It talked to me in Japanese...

Heh, my old PC at work used to have an extremely chatty mainboard, it talked its way through every boot. Something like "all systems initialized" in a female voice very similar to the ST:TNG Enterprise computer.

VileRancour wrote:

Heh, my old PC at work used to have an extremely chatty mainboard, it talked its way through every boot. Something like "all systems initialized" in a female voice very similar to the ST:TNG Enterprise computer.

Yes, that was indeed Majel Barret (Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry).

Maybe I should ammend my comments to read that I would be more concerned if my box started saying:

"42"

all the time 😜

My ASUS P4S333 has this feature after updating the BIOS. Yes, we can change the WAV files by ourselves, using ASUS BIOS Voice Reporter application.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/win … editor_M316.zip

MatthewBrian wrote:

My ASUS P4S333 has this feature after updating the BIOS. Yes, we can change the WAV files by ourselves, using ASUS BIOS Voice Reporter application.

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/win … editor_M316.zip

ROFL ,now i need one of them mobo spitting insults all around!

Uh-oh!

I think installing five different symbian SDKs was harder than installing a floppy drive.. =)

I think the hardest thing to install is older motherboards

because seriously, standoffs suck.