Penteium 4: PC speaker emulator

[jamie_110]

So I broke the PC speaker in my Pentium 4. Do you know if there is a driver for Windows 98 that will reroute the sound from the speaker to my sound card?

 

[190221]

whats using the pc speaker? generally, i've only seen old (like really old) DOS games use it, and generally they can be reconfigured to use the sound card.

 

[jamie_110]

I can't think of anything offhand, sorry.

 

[190221]

then why do you need it, if nothing uses it.

 

[jamie_110]

I came across something recently(can't remember what) that used the PC beep if your soundcard did not work and then realized if mine failed that I may not be alerted to whatever it was. At the momement, I want it in case I need it in the future. But at the moment I think the best solution might be to take a speaker from another computer when I next get one for spare parts.

 

[190221]

okay, i understand, but if you emulated your pc speaker through your soundcard, when the soundcard broke it would not work. HOWEVER, if you want to anyways, some soundcards do have a pc speaker header. there is no way to do it in software As far as i know.

 

[jamie_110]

Oh right if the sound card(or more likely the driver) acts up I have no sound, that's a no-brainer. Still would be nice to have a PC speaker emulator in case I need it in the future.