John,

Does your motherboard (well, case) _have_ a speaker (or piezo sounder)

Yup, it does. Some direct I/O fiddeling (setting a divider, connect its
output to the speaker) made the beeper sound (for reference, see the links
to sourcecode JJ posted.)

If so, does it make _any_ sound - e. g. during initial boot, before
Windows starts?

Jup, a single beep when I power-on the 'puter.

If it is there but doesn't make any sound, is there anything in the
BIOS?

:-) Just went thru the same things with JJ. Can't find anything in there
naming the buzzer/system speaker there.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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As I said, this may or may not be relevant!

It has made me step back in time. :-)

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As for relevancy ? I'm just out for a build-in method to generate some
sound outof whatever is present on the motherboard as a "hey, I need some
attention" signal, as my soundcard is connected to headphones, which I do
not hear when I do not have them on (which is most of the time). Being
able to play some distinguishable "notes" is already an extra.
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Does your motherboard (well, case) _have_ a speaker (or piezo sounder)
connected to that 4-pin header? If so, does it make _any_ sound - e. g.
during initial boot, before Windows starts? If it is there but doesn't
make any sound, is there anything in the BIOS? (For example, can you set
the temperature alarm threshold low enough to trigger the "overheat"
signal, if the BIOS has that function.)
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