First post, by infiniteclouds
I'm trying to restore functionality of my internal PC Speaker beyond just the POST beep using BeepX but I need the BEEP.SYS driver from Windows XP (32-bit) and I can't seem to find it anywhere.
I'm trying to restore functionality of my internal PC Speaker beyond just the POST beep using BeepX but I need the BEEP.SYS driver from Windows XP (32-bit) and I can't seem to find it anywhere.
First link in Google:
http://www.sysfilesdownload.com/B/beep.sys.html
(and yes, that's from XP - 5.1.2600)
BEEP.SYS should be in the i386 directory of WinXP installation cd-rom, in form of compressed BEEP.SY_ file.
Can be decompresed using EXPAND.EXE that resides in the very same directory.
-fffuuu
There used to be a virus that destroyed Windows XP's BEEP.SYS and replaced it with itself, so that it could auto-load on startup. If you've come across a system missing BEEP.SYS, it's usually a sign that either the system had previously been infected, or else an unintelligent antivirus program misidentified XP's BEEP.SYS as an infection. But it could be OS corruption, sure.
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Stiletto
You don't seem to know what he's trying to do. It has nothing to do with a corrupted file. 😉
wrote:You don't seem to know what he's trying to do. It has nothing to do with a corrupted file. 😉
I didn't understand that his host OS was not Windows XP, no, since I didn't know what BeepX was. Now I have done the research, and I know that his host OS is Windows 7 or newer.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately BeepX does not seem to work with Win 7 64-bit and as such there is no way to restore PC Speaker functionality beyond that initial POST beep. x_x
wrote:Thanks for the help. Unfortunately BeepX does not seem to work with Win 7 64-bit and as such there is no way to restore PC Speaker functionality beyond that initial POST beep. x_x
What you need is BeepXP64
I found the link to it on this page:
https://superuser.com/questions/227939/how-to … -command-prompt
And here is the page where it can be downloaded from:
http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/dl.php?download=beepxp64
And here it is attached:
wrote:What you need is BeepXP64 I found the link to it on this page: https://superuser.com/questions/227939/how-to … -command-prompt […]
wrote:Thanks for the help. Unfortunately BeepX does not seem to work with Win 7 64-bit and as such there is no way to restore PC Speaker functionality beyond that initial POST beep. x_x
What you need is BeepXP64
I found the link to it on this page:
https://superuser.com/questions/227939/how-to … -command-promptAnd here is the page where it can be downloaded from:
http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/dl.php?download=beepxp64And here it is attached:
Thank you SO MUCH! This worked beautifully! I was never able to access waldbauer.com -- I always got redirect errors when I tried to visit the site.
cyclone3d wrote on 2018-01-30, 01:50:What you need is BeepXP64 I found the link to it on this page: https://superuser.com/questions/227939/how-to … -command-prompt […]
wrote:Thanks for the help. Unfortunately BeepX does not seem to work with Win 7 64-bit and as such there is no way to restore PC Speaker functionality beyond that initial POST beep. x_x
What you need is BeepXP64
I found the link to it on this page:
https://superuser.com/questions/227939/how-to … -command-promptAnd here is the page where it can be downloaded from:
http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/dl.php?download=beepxp64And here it is attached:
The 64-bit version worked PERFECTLY, thank you so much for archiving and sharing, especially since it seems like the original website is down.
Speaking of which, does anyone still have the 32-bit version? Archive.org did not preserve it...