Perfectly working pc, plays games and benchmarks great, but no BIOs speaker post beep ever

[REDDLINE]

So I made a small form factor ITX pc in a Node 202, put it together and everything runs great, I have been gaming on it for a few weeks and love it, BUT, no matter what I will not get a motherboard beep from motherboard speaker. I have tried 3 different speakers on the 4 pin header, and nothing. When i first made the pc i had some problems that I had to diagnose with ram and my video card, but I couldn't get any indication of what was wrong due to no beeps from the speaker, and had to diagnose without it to start from. Parts I have are:

INTEL I7-8700K

ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING ITX

TEAMFORCE 16GB 3200MHZ DDR4

SEASONIC FOCUS SGX-650 PSU

MSI RADEON RX 480 GAMING X GPU

WESTERN DIGITAL SF750 500GB M.2 SSD

WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE 2TB SSD

WINDOWS 10 PRO 21H1 19043.1110

If anyone has an idea with an ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I board or something similar that has happened let me know, I like having the bios beep codes whenever anything ever goes wrong. If its just a bad header or something i can live with that, I just wanna know if maybe I'm missing something and its disabled and i have to enable it.

Thank you

 

[Mescalamba]

Not sure if same, but my motherboard has enable/disable switch in BIOS for beeps.

 

[P4-630]

CAPS usually doesn't mean you get help faster here...

GL.

 

[REDDLINE]

Not sure if same, but my motherboard has enable/disable switch in BIOS for beeps.

Yeah, I tried looking for a setting in bios but I couldn't find anything, I really looked too, searched manual and tried to google for it and I couldn't find anything on why it wont do any bios post beeps, I even went into windows and used the sound settings to force a mobo beep and it wont, even with all other sound devices disconnected or disabled.

CAPS usually doesn't mean you get help faster here...

GL.

Sorry, I have typed it out before and had it saved, so i just copied and pasted my specs even though they were already all caps.

 

[kruk]

Fast boot setting in BIOS usually disables some initialization steps, which means that beeps are not activated.
Also, IIRC, you can only trigger the PC speaker beep in modern Windows versions if you press Ctrl+G in terminal ...

 

[dark2099]

Try reversing the orientation of the speaker, I don't think those have positive and negative terminals, but just to be sure, or if you have another PC try the speakers in that to see if it is the speaker itself or the motherboard.

 

[REDDLINE]

Try reversing the orientation of the speaker, I don't think those have positive and negative terminals, but just to be sure, or if you have another PC try the speakers in that to see if it is the speaker itself or the motherboard.

The 3 speakers I tried in my ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING motherboard wont work, they will work in 2 other motherboards I have, one is a GIGABYTE Z390 I AORUS GAMING, and a GIGABYTE Z97N GAMING 5, both make bios beeps right at the start or if there are any problems.

 

[dark2099]

Seems like then the header on the MB might be dead then, did you but the board new or used? If new, I would submit for an RMA if you are ok being with out for the time being.

EDIT: Did you try reversing the orientation of the plug on the motherboard?

 

[xrobwx71]

Not all MB's have a "beep" option. For instance, mine doesn't beep and it doesn't have an option to beep. It does however have a double-digit, red, LCD that displays the boot sequence numbers.

 

[The red spirit]

Try reversing the orientation of the speaker, I don't think those have positive and negative terminals, but just to be sure, or if you have another PC try the speakers in that to see if it is the speaker itself or the motherboard.

Poor advice. You can fry speaker that way. I once installed speaker backwards on modern board and speaker got really hot fast, reversed it and it was staying cool.

 

[dark2099]

Poor advice. You can fry speaker that way. I once installed speaker backwards on modern board and speaker got really hot fast, reversed it and it was staying cool.

The reason I suggest it, the orientation of pins on his ASUS MB is 5V, ground, ground, speaker out. With out looking, I am wondering if on the GB boards that the speaker works, it goes speaker out, ground, ground, 5V. And if all it is going to do is fry a speaker and he has 3, and they're not expensive, not the biggest deal, plus if the speaker header on the MB is dead, nothing will go wrong.

 

[ShiBDiB]

Just to clarify something...

Are you sure your motherboard has a speaker? It's not the same thing as plugging a speaker into your audio jack. It's a little tiny thing that goes on 4 (I think) pins. The tech specs for that board don't state anything about a built in speaker.

 

[REDDLINE]

Just to clarify something...

Are you sure your motherboard has a speaker? It's not the same thing as plugging a speaker into your audio jack. It's a little tiny thing that goes on 4 (I think) pins. The tech specs for that board don't state anything about a built in speaker.

Yes, on the board it has the 4pin speaker header, the manual has it labeled as motherboard speaker, and it shows which end is the 5v negative negative and speaker out orientation, I'm assuming either its bad, but also after I get off work I need to see about fast boot and if its enabled or not since I'm not too sure right now if I have it on or off since the last time I checked. I have tried all 3 speakers in both orientations, and nothing has happened, but when I get off in a couple hours I will try a couple things you all suggested.

 

[Operandi]

Poor advice. You can fry speaker that way. I once installed speaker backwards on modern board and speaker got really hot fast, reversed it and it was staying cool.

Idk what happened in your case but speaking generally this isn't possible. If its like every PC case speaker I've seen its just two pins, one positive one negative. If you get them swapped around it still works the speaker is just out of phase with the signal. This was always a inside joke with my friends that built PCs and were also into audio; "make sure you get the polarity right on PC speaker or your SQ will be shit".

 

[delshay]

Try reversing the orientation of the speaker, I don't think those have positive and negative terminals, but just to be sure, or if you have another PC try the speakers in that to see if it is the speaker itself or the motherboard.

That is indeed correct. I tend to lose these speakers so I now solder them to the motherboard.. It may show 4 pin, but in truth it's only two pin.
Provided the motherboard is out of warranty, I de-solder the pin headed & solder the speaker direct to the motherboard. If a motherboard does have a real speaker header, solder speaker here instead. Note that I'm talking motherboards that are out of warranty.