I have my doubts too about connecting the speaker output to the
sound card the way you have mentioned.  However, my old
soundblaster 16 did have a set of pins for connecting the case
speaker wire to the sound card (and it is infact marked
PCSpeaker). I don't recall seeing this on my newer SBAWE or
other sound cards.  So it doesn't hurt to look.  The pins were right
next to the cdrom audio in connector.

> > like to route the PC Speaker alarms through my Sound Card instead.
> > I am thinking about just clipping my PC Speaker and running the
> > wires over to an open input on the sound card but I thought I would
> > check and see if anyone is aware of a software program or driver
>   I cannot recommend that you do this, for two reasons:
>
> 1.  The motherboard signal to the speaker is a square wave, already
> amplified to sufficient levels to drive the speaker cone back and
> forth.  It would not surprise me if these current levels greatly
> exceed anything the electronic components on your sound card expect
> to receive as inputs.  I would count it as lucky if only the sound
> card is damaged.


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