I need a driver for XP to drive the PC speaker rather than the sound card and wityh the capability of swapping between the speaker output and the sound card output. Such a thing exists in real Audio but that is money!

Under PC Speaker othes have similar problems.

I have the same problem as Ruby (above)
if I can get a spec for the XP drivers.
and the source for the DOS version I may be able to knock something up.

The application is XP(SP2) laptop and server without connecting up the soundcard.

Therefore will need to disable the soundcard route.
any info send to email: martingreg3@aol.com

XP is built on NT

W9x/ME has an MS-DOS subsytem so do not know where MS-DOS comes into XP, but what the heck look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138857/

Correct me if I'm not understanding your question. If the sound card isn't amplifying the sound for the speakers, then a chipset on the mother board has to be doing it. Is that correct? Speakers can't play without an amplifier. So the drivers you want are part of the motherboard drivers, the way I see it.
If that's not correct, what's supplying the sound to the speakers? It has to be one or the other.

Martin

Maybe you need your car washed too. If you are too inconvenienced to return here to read the thread then I don't know what to say. You want FREE advice but not any inconvience.

There was an old dos program called, I believe, PCSPEAKER that redirected sound to the pc speaker. Googling that term may turn up something. Whether it'll work in an XP environment is unknown.

I just checked inverto's link and I don't think it's the same as the one I was thinking of. But it looks like inverto's may be what you need.