Sadly, Nadya, all my machines do have a sound card, so I cannot test with certainty.

But... every machine I have seen starts with a BEEP to indicate all OK. Some, I think, start with one short beep, some with 2, and all have longer more irritating beep sequences when thinga are NOT OK.

If yours does NOT beep at power-on then I would guess that some tampering with the beep speaker has been done. If it does beep on power-on, then I have no idea why something like "?? chr(7)" doesn't work from the command window (it does here on my speakered machines).

JimN

>>SNIP
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>>>>Can't you use sound instead of messing with the keyboard lights?
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>>>What is a computer doesn't have a sound card? My at work doesn't...
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>>But it can still BEEP.
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>How? I tried ?chr(7) - no sound. Is there another way?