It has been solved, at least for initial installs. Pete, what you will have to do is go into the mixer, and turn down/mute the "PC Beep" control. That will get rid of that loud beep you are getting.
As the changelog for the alsa-utils upload above explains, this sound control will be muted by default for fresh installs, but will allow people to enable it should they choose to do so.
It has been solved, at least for initial installs. Pete, what you will have to do is go into the mixer, and turn down/mute the "PC Beep" control. That will get rid of that loud beep you are getting.
As the changelog for the alsa-utils upload above explains, this sound control will be muted by default for fresh installs, but will allow people to enable it should they choose to do so.