A student is running PE5 on his computer. It works fine, but there is no sound from PE5 when verifying or downloading. Other sounds on the computer work fine. Is there a volume control or toggle somewhere in PE5?
You piqued my curiosity, so I booted PE 5.5.6 on my antique Dell laptop running Windows XP (my standard development platform). I then programmed a 20M2 Picaxe with two different files. There were indeed system sounds, which I never noticed before (probably because I usually have the sound turned off).
If I forced a program failure I got the usual basso "Mwa" sound from Windows. A successful download yielded the usual two note "tee-too" from Windows.
I couldn't find a way to enable or disable these sounds within PE 5, but I confess I didn't look very hard. I could, of course, turn off the sounds using the Dell laptop soft keys (Fn-End), but that's a computer specific command, and nothing to do with PE 5.