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Motherboard Speakers
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I had exactly the same problem. Just get any small self powered speaker and connect it to the mobo speaker pins and it should work fine. I got my speaker from a mcdonalds happy meal toy! But ****** sell some aswell. You may be able to get a small speaker from an old pair of earphones, but the beeps would be quiet so would have to listen carefully.
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What case do you have?
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I couldnt not find it to buy from anywhere at all, and that is why I ended up making it myself. There have been a couple previously but have finished on a popular auction site (seach for "computer case speaker"), but no current auctions for one.
Just like you, I had no idea where to start initially.
But had an old happymeal toy lying about. Just got a hacksaw and sawed it apart. Took the small speaker out (about 1" diameter)). Cut the 2 wires (black and red) that were connecting it to the circuit board in the toy. Then just temporarily held the 2 wires to the 2 mobo speakers pins while booting to listen to the beep codes.
It isnt really a permanent solution but fine if you just want to listen to a beep code, and then can disconnect it again. Just hack apart anything with a small speaker in that you dont need any more (small toys, headphones, earphones) and connect the speaker to the mobo pins, making sure to connect positive to positive, and negative to negative, and you should have no problem.
If you are still not comfortable doing this, try getting somebody else you know that is ok at electronics to make it for you as it really is very simple and takes seconds
Just like you, I had no idea where to start initially.
But had an old happymeal toy lying about. Just got a hacksaw and sawed it apart. Took the small speaker out (about 1" diameter)). Cut the 2 wires (black and red) that were connecting it to the circuit board in the toy. Then just temporarily held the 2 wires to the 2 mobo speakers pins while booting to listen to the beep codes.
It isnt really a permanent solution but fine if you just want to listen to a beep code, and then can disconnect it again. Just hack apart anything with a small speaker in that you dont need any more (small toys, headphones, earphones) and connect the speaker to the mobo pins, making sure to connect positive to positive, and negative to negative, and you should have no problem.
If you are still not comfortable doing this, try getting somebody else you know that is ok at electronics to make it for you as it really is very simple and takes seconds
I cant belive you cant buy these things
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I know, I was surprised when I couldnt find one pre-made to buy aswell. They are surprisingly extremely difficult to find!
Seriously give it a try and make one yourself, could be your first mod
Seriously give it a try and make one yourself, could be your first mod
You can buy a PC test set comprising two LEDs, two switches and a speaker, all with the appropriate connectors for a mobo, from the same highstreet competitor as mentioned earlier. Unfortunately they don't sell the speaker on its own so I now have a good number of LEDs and switches....
My googling on the tiny speaker showed that it is a true speaker so I don't think buzzers will work as well as they are fixed frequency. I'd be very happy to be proved wrong on this.
My googling on the tiny speaker showed that it is a true speaker so I don't think buzzers will work as well as they are fixed frequency. I'd be very happy to be proved wrong on this.