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>JO> I don't have a sound card installed, but surely I can get a beep out
>JO> of the speaker without one?
>
>You indicate that you hear a beep from the computer but you don't have
>a sound card installed so I assuming that you don't have external
>speakers that one plugs into a sound card.  So the speakers you're
>refering to must be the internal speakers in your computer case that
>comes standard with cases that isn't generally used in the Windows OS
>environment.  The Windows OS uses a sound card to "send sound" to
>external speakers.

Actually, you can install a PC speaker driver for Windows, and then you
can get sounds out of your PC speaker.

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q138857

I believe it works only up to Windows 98 though.

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