Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.
Rich Harran. wrote:
>
> When you turn on your computer, it should make a beep noise through the
> internal speaker as the BIOS initialises (POST). This is so you know it
> has started correctly, for example if your monitor fails. If you do not
> get any sort of sound at start up, the speaker may be broken, or
> disconnected. If you don't mind doing this, take the case off your
> computer, and check the connection between the speaker and the motherboard
> - there should probably be a pair of thin plastic-coated wires going via a
> little plastic plug to two metal prongs somewhere around the edge of the
> motherboard: check nothing has come loose or is broken.
>
> It is possible (unlikely?) that your Bios doesn't beep to say everything
> is ok on start-up, but it definitely should if something is wrong. You
> could try taking out your graphics card (if you haven't turned the
> computer off by now, do so, and take precautions against static dischage),
> and then re-starting your computer. If the speaker is working, there will
> be loads of beeps, as the bios tells you it can't find the primary video
> (I've heard the knew ACME bios avoids all this noise by printing an
> informative error message on the screen!).
I would suggest just unplugging the keyboard to force a bios failure.
> If your speaker isn't working, I wouldn't worry about the cost of
> replacing it, as the ones supplied with PC's are invariably cheap crappy
> ones, and you should be able to get one for around a fiver (english
> money). The one I have in my computer was bastardised from a broken
> cheap radio.
>
> Hope some of this helps, or at least makes sense. If the speaker is
> working physically, I can't think of any debian stuff which would use it,
> but if you've got dos installed, most games will use it.
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