diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index a26345f70..bee8e260b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-01-03  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
+
+	* fhandler_console.cc (beep): Use MB_OK which is documented as using
+	the default bell rather than -1 which seems to behave differently on
+	different versions of Windows.
+
 2006-01-03  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* fhandler_process.cc (fhandler_process::readdir): Add missing argument
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
index c10098b58..c6e67e804 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ beep ()
       if (res && res <= len)
 	r.set_string ("", strcat (buf, "\\media\\ding.wav"));
     }
-  MessageBeep (0xFFFFFFFF);
+  MessageBeep (MB_OK);
 }
 
 const unsigned char *