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Save your ears from cable-unplug beep

Published by Esteban Glas on June 10th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: ThinkPad Tips

I’ve read many comments on different blogs (lenovoblogs.com amongst them), about people who had their ears bleed after unplugging the power cable while on headphones. I have suffered from this as well, so I wanted to seek for an option to disable such annoyance.

There is a way to disable it, but there is a small disadvantage in doing so. I’ll get to that in a second, first the “how to”:

Restart your ThinkPad, while on the first splash screen, get on the bios setup (two ways to do this: hit the “F1″ key -direct- or hit the blue “ThinkVantage” button, which will start “Rescue and Recovery”, on the right side links you have an “access bios” option.

WARNING! You can seriously brake things if you fiddle with BIOS and don’t know what you are doing!

Once on the BIOS go to:

Config -> Alarm -> Power Control Beep -> Select “Disabled”

Save your changes by hitting “F10″ and confirming you actually want to save changes and restart.

So, what’s the downside? That by disabling such beeps you also disable all power-realtad beeps (suspend, hibernate and resume). I can personally rely just on the visible cues my ThinkPad provides (the Half moon), but this might NOT be your case.

Disclaimer: I have updated my T60p’s BIOS only two weeks ago and can’t confirm is this option has been around for a long time or just since this last update.

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