Disable the POST beep on a Z97-GD65?

[ling420]

I finished my new build last weekend, and I adore the motherboard and the BIOS, but this incredibly loud, obnoxious POST beep that plays every time the PC is powered on is infuriating. When I turn my computer on in the morning I wake up everyone else in the house. I've scoured the BIOS, no options for this seem to exist. The speaker would normally connect to JFP2, it seems, but nothing is connected here. There does not appear to be a physical speaker wired anywhere in plain sight, and all I can tell from listening closely is that it must be somewhere on the right half of the board (I would link to an image, but since the forums don't allow that you'll have to do a Google image search to see what I'm talking about). With this board being part of the Logical Increments PC guide, I cannot believe that no one else is having this problem.

The only thing I can think of is that there is a speaker wired underneath the south bridge heatsink, but I can't even begin to fathom what MSI were thinking if this is the case, and I don't want to just pry it off because I've never done anything like that before and don't want to damage a brand new board (also my GPU is in the way, I'd have to half take my PC apart to get at it). Could I please get some insight into this? No other forum/board has been able to help me, they all just tell me I must have a speaker plugged in somewhere but I don't even own one and one certainly doesn't come with the board.

 

[Nichrome]

A.. speaker? Sorry to say that, but I am slightly surprised by this. Most motherboards doesn't have one, but the 2 pins to connect one into it.

As far as I know, you're not able to disable the POST beep. And I went through HD picture of the motherboard and don't see any area that may look like a speaker. Also it doesn't make sense as there is POST LED so speaker is quite useless..
If you could narrow this down to certain area, it might be a bit easier to locate it. My current thought is that it's under the red dragon heatsink:

(Image of Z87-GD65 but red heatsink is the same)

 

[ling420]

That was my thought as well, but I don't know how to just take it off without damaging anything. Re-applying thermal paste or something would not be a big deal but I've never messed with a south bridge before.

There are two speaker ports (+ and -) as part of the JFP2 7-pin header (far right side of that image there), but I can clearly see that nothing is connected to them.

 

[flobelix]

The beep can't be caused by the board then as it doesn't have a speaker on it. Only a speaker connected to the front headers (which you say aren't connected) might beep. Also this board doesn't beep even if a speaker is connected if not failing to boot (all modern boards will only beep on a bad boot). Most likely any add-on component causes this soun.

 

[ling420]

EDIT: Turns out everything was plugged in correctly and the motherboard does not, in fact, have a speaker. My Lamptron CW611, which I did not even know possessed a speaker (it's covered with a white sticker that I ignored), is beeping every time the PC receives power as some kind of "0 voltage" warning. Unfortunately I'm not much closer to fixing the issue, but since this is not actually related to MSI motherboards, this topic may be closed.