Flamin Joe
Experienced Member
Hi all,
I've got a strange sound coming out of my Internal PC Speaker on one of my Atari IBM XT clones. I did a short video below which is easier then trying to explain what it sounds like. One thing I noticed too is if you put your ear up really close to the speaker you can hear the sound it is supposed to be making but it is very faint. In this case it's attempting to play a song from Bard's Tale II.
My first thought was perhaps the speaker was faulty but I tried another known working speaker and it was exactly the same. Next I took out all the expansion cards (Sound Blaster, Rampage memory card and VGA adapter) so it was down to the bare minimum with just the RLL Controller card and it made no difference. I know it's not software related either as the same sound occurs during the POST beep.
I tested it with a multimeter while playing sound and it went between 4.4v and 5.0v so it doesn't look as if that is the problem.
Any ideas?
I've got a strange sound coming out of my Internal PC Speaker on one of my Atari IBM XT clones. I did a short video below which is easier then trying to explain what it sounds like. One thing I noticed too is if you put your ear up really close to the speaker you can hear the sound it is supposed to be making but it is very faint. In this case it's attempting to play a song from Bard's Tale II.
My first thought was perhaps the speaker was faulty but I tried another known working speaker and it was exactly the same. Next I took out all the expansion cards (Sound Blaster, Rampage memory card and VGA adapter) so it was down to the bare minimum with just the RLL Controller card and it made no difference. I know it's not software related either as the same sound occurs during the POST beep.
I tested it with a multimeter while playing sound and it went between 4.4v and 5.0v so it doesn't look as if that is the problem.
Any ideas?