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BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers
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adding one more option to the BIOS menu: disable boot beep #64

Open giobbino opened 6 months ago

giobbino commented 6 months ago

Hi, it could be silly and trivial, but when all is working fine, the initial multi-beep at boot is annoying (and loud, if you use it at night and you're married LOL).

Any chance to put one more option into the BIOS menu enable/disable the beep?

skiselev commented 6 months ago

I feel your pain ;) My wife also doesn't get excited for some reason when she hears the boot melody :)

The point at which the melody plays might be a bit too early to read the configuration (it depends... it probably will work fine with flash based configuration, e.g. in Micro 8088, but it might be a problem with an NVRAM/RTC, e.g. on Xi 8088).

I'll think about the proper implementation of this. In the worst case, I can add a compile time option to enable or disable the boot sound.