Should be a fairly straightforward question. Is the mobo speaker (the one that beeps for POST codes) an actual speaker or just a simple buzzer? The reason I ask is that I have a device that has an output for an 8-ohm speaker. I need a speaker to play .wav files, not just a buzzer.

 

The beepers I have seen were all piezos (not speakers).

 

I don't know about newer ones, but in the old days, they used to be speakers. I actually wrote some code that did PWM to it to produce some piss-poor audio. You could get understandable speech out of it though. This was in the days before PCs had any better audio capabilities.

Bob

 

I just remembered...I have 32 boxes of salvaged computer parts and there is (1) one 2 inch speaker in there. Maybe the word, "piss-poor" jogged my memory.

 

Usually the ones on board are a simple buzzer, but most PC's now have a built in rear phono out jack alongside the mic socket instead.
The older ones had a plug for a simple speaker to be attached to.
Max.

 

I think you misspelled, "phone".

 

Well technically on the MB it is described as 'Line in' 'Line out'.
The RCA sockets usually state Phono for audio.
Max.