HAF X Case speaker

uzi94 · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:35

What is the HAF X case speaker for?

KiiYzOo · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:43

its for fault testing purposes i think.

R.C.Anderson · 15 Jan 2011 at 22:14

^^yea, it connects to the mobo, so that when there's an error it can beep at you in a specific way, and will tell you what's wrong.

uzi94 · 15 Jan 2011 at 22:22

Ahh ok, thanks a lot.

LiamJ · 15 Jan 2011 at 22:53

There's usually a header on the motherboard, next to where the front panel connectors go, where you can connect this.

judmann · 16 Jan 2011 at 16:48

R.C.Anderson said:
^^yea, it connects to the mobo, so that when there's an error it can beep at you in a specific way, and will tell you what's wrong.

what kind of faults could there be?

LiamJ · 16 Jan 2011 at 17:28

For example, if you try to start the system without a GPU or RAM or something, the motherboard will beep a for a certain length of time or number of times. The motherboard manual will often tell you which sequence of beeps means what, and what has gone wrong.

shotgunshand · 17 Jan 2011 at 13:54

Yeah, audio tones often tell what kinda fault is happening. Depends on motherboard what tones mean what.

Solaris · 17 Jan 2011 at 13:58

Also if their is someone trapped inside your PC they can beep out morse code for SOS with it...

wilko49 · 17 Jan 2011 at 17:08

The internal speaker is used for:
POST error codes (detailed in the motherboard manual)
Fan fail warnings (if turned on in BIOS)
Some other errors during use (such as blue screens and stuck keys)

judmann · 17 Jan 2011 at 20:47

i know you get error beeps from the motherboard anyway so really this is just a louder beep from the speaker.
I did wonder what it was for.
mmm where did i throw it now.

EniGmA1981 · 17 Jan 2011 at 21:18

Not all motherboards have a built-in speaker, some have a 2-pin connection like the power/reset switches from the case and down in the same cluster of pins in fact...

For the boards that don't have the speaker, there's the case speaker

shotgunshand · 18 Jan 2011 at 11:49

I would prefer something that would make R2D2 noises. Would be far more expressive.

BloodyL · 18 Jan 2011 at 12:24

Back in the day there was an app for Win 3.1 that would turn the POST speaker into a very basic onboard sound device!

shotgunshand · 18 Jan 2011 at 13:26

basic indeed! Midi only?