Why do computers beep? What causes the noise, and what made beeps the universal sound of computer?

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They’re everywhere, seeming since the advent of electronics beeps have been used. Why?

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You’re computer has a tiny speaker on the motherboard, it does just the beeps.

Those beeps are most often tied to POST – Power On Self-Test, where your computer does a basic check “do I have memory? Is there storage? Is there powersupply? A CPU? Good, BEEP” If you took out your RAM and tried to start your computer you’d get a noticeably different set of beep noises than if you had no storage drives.

Generally speaking the beeps tend to follow the manufacturer’s code for an issue, although these days it seems to be pretty similar across them all now.

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