Usually pins on the mother board only have a reference number, like J8 or some such thing. I have found that you may need to look up the model of the mother board on-line, and get a manual, and the manual will tell you which pins are for the speaker. HTH. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:41 PM Subject: Re: RE:The Vanishing PC Speaker On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:35:39PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Perhaps there are pins on the board to which you can connect the speaker? Most motherboards for any PC will have upright pins for the speaker. They're commonly 4 pins, with the two middle pins being unused. I wouldn't try it without sighted assistance to read the writing on the motherboard. Trying trial and error with some of those pins could short out the motherboard and fry something important. The POST (Power-On Self Test) will always issue beeps to assist in diagnosing problems, though beep codes vary from one CMOS/BIOS to another. Unless PC manufacturers start standardizing front panel connections, connecting up the cabinet's front panel is about the only job the blind cannot do to to repair their own systems. Michael _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
