Unless, of course, your Compaq and decide to install sound cards that were
made just for hooking up an internal speaker and getting sound out of them.
Very tinny, cheap sound.  Just for historical purposes as well.

Kyle Elmblade

From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer Speaker


> This has "nothing" to do with the question, but there WAS some old
> (and new) stuff that some users may still be using, or have seen...
> MS used to have a sound driver that reduced sounds to one bit audio
> and then put it through the internal PC speaker.
> There were also some old EXE files around, (I have one written by IBM),
> that played music through the PC speaker in what was sort of like MIDI,
> (a very early attempt at Multimedia?)...
> I also believe there are (motherboards and) BIOSs that play music under
> rare and unusual circumstances...
> Like most things, there are always these "odd" exceptions...
> I'm just mentioning it from a historical perspective.
>                      Rick Glazier
>
> > External speakers are connected to and
> > driven by the sound card.  The internal speaker connects directly to
> > the motherboard.  Also, only "dings", "clunks", and "clanks" can be
> > heard from the internal speaker --- no music or voice.

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