If you do not like soldering on your motherboard, you can just break the piezo speaker piece by piece, and then just connect cables, to install a real speaker, or route speaker output to a sound card. Wel i have done that to few of my OEM motherboards. Awesome! I just asked about this yesterday! So …

Hi, I am currently in the process of doing a Pentium 3 build. I am using a gateway workstation with the intel WS440BX motherboard - it has performed as well as any 440bx board and def seems to be from an era before OEM parts started being inferior to consumer facing parts. However, I have run into a …