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Re:I am a puts debuggerer by teh_klev on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:00AM (#11051695)
Once upon a time in the olden days, if certain makes of PC couldn't successfully complete the Power On Self Test and couldn't initialise video output to report the problem, it would beep the fault code through the system speaker.
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Re:I am a puts debuggerer by djcapelis on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:17AM (#11052041)
Most motherboards still do this.
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Re:I am a puts debuggerer by steve-howard on Sunday February 07, 2016 @03:40AM (#11052204)
Just not as often, I imagine.
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Re:I am a puts debuggerer by aptwebapps on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:24AM (#11052052)
Except, for some makes, it wouldn't get that far but at least that narrowed down the possibilities.
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