> The weird thing is, it's not coming through my system speaker. It seems as > if the system speaker is forwarding the sound to the wave device. And only > cygwin does it. Microsoft's SDK documentation says Windows 95/98/Me beep with the sound card (if present) and Windows NT/2000/XP beep with the internal speaker. Try setting the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound\Beep to "No" and see if that helps. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/