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My system administrator refuses to give me normal external speakers. He says my job requirement doesn't involve sounds. However, I do want to hear some Windows sounds.

Is there any way to play them from the PC speaker instead?

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Do you have headphones? – sblair May 16 '11 at 12:16
Is there any reason you can't buy your own speaker? And I thought the internal speaker (if there is one) isn't capable of producing a decent enough range of tones. – tombull89 May 16 '11 at 12:19
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On my Dell PC I use for work the internal speaker actually produces normal mono sound. I don't know if this is a special speaker though. It looks normal – sinni800 May 16 '11 at 12:27
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Without knowing your hardware configuration it's difficult to say, but if you mean the little speaker that's integrated into the motherboard and beeps when you turn the computer on, probably not.

That speaker is intended for low bit sounds like post test chirps and Windows 7 system sounds generally exceed it's abilities.

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Well, back in the mists of time the Sinclair ZX Spectrum could produce music and synthesised speech using a single-channel beeper similar to that on a PC motherboard. So it would theoretically be possible to get some extremely low-quality versions of the normal WAV files played through it but impractical I would think. – Alan B May 16 '11 at 13:47
i've seen... well heard.. people do voice with a normal speaker. I do think that a cheap speaker/headphone would be a better way to solve the problem tho – Journeyman Geek May 17 '11 at 7:34
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