This was never meant to be a techie forum, this is a bitch session that happens to offer some techie advice... FREE! Whenever I adjusted the volume in my Windows Volume Control, it made this obnoxious beep. It made this beep even if the sound on Volume Control was muted, and even when my sound schemes were set to "No Sounds" ... I destroyed my computer, literally, by disabling something that referred to "Volume" but was really to manage the storage volume... you know, the hard drive? OOPS. I forget if it was a deleted registry entry or a disabled service (gobbledeygook, I know), but regardless, it said "Volume" and I got rid of it after hours of trying to eliminate whatever was causing that really annoying and really LOUD beep, and my computer choked up its left lung and died. Thank you jesus for my obsessive habit of backing up my PC; rebuilt and restored data within 2 hours, no headaches, but the BEEP was back! I started feel like the beep was a little chucky doll I could not kill... I finally found some uber obscure reference to the beep posted a forum over 2 years ago, and it turns out it is a Non Plug-n-Play device driver and I won't go on. Here's a link to the forum if you need help getting rid of Chucky Beep...                                         >Go to Forum< You gotta love geeks; they talk about this stuff for fun, and the rest of us get to have the answers by default. And I love what the poster on the forum says: "The MS tech support flunky who said it was a motherboard problem should be boiled in oil for such a blatant lie." And whoever built this "feature" in the first place deserves an equally horrid fate. Why is disabling this beep buried three layers deep in system configurations and who would ever want it in the first place? Does NO SOUNDS mean NO SOUNDS EXCEPT THE LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS BEEP WHEN YOU AJDUST THE VOLUME to Microsoft bitheads? Apple whackjobs need not post comments, we won't go to your grasseating ways no matter what you say.