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I've decided to have some retro feeling and ordered a motherboard beeper.
The one like this:

PC Speaker

I've connected the red wire to +5v pin on motherboard and the other one to a pin labeled as "speaker". It's working fine on bios startup and does one single beep.

Now the question is.
If I try using system beeper in windows, e.g. with:

powershell.exe [console]::beep(500,600)

The sound goes either through desktop speakers or headphones. I want the sound to come out of PC speaker / beeper, whatever it's called, the one connected to motherboard pins.

Specs:
Name Value
Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 21H1
OS build 19043.928
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0
MotherBoard Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
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  • Do any of the many answers in How to make the PC speaker beep from the Windows 7 command prompt? help?
    – Andrew Morton
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 20:00
  • Hi, @AndrewMorton! I've just tried the answers mentioned there and also the ^G special char in cmd, all produce sound from desktop speakers. Though I'll have to try the accepted answer, it will take some time to find 64 bit Win XP Beep.sys. Thanks for the link!
    – DiMithras
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 20:05
  • @AndrewMorton well, according to the comments this answer is stale for x64 Win-7 or later. Btw, I remember using Win7 PCs on a project back in 2017 where we had no desktop speakers and the motherboard one worked for holding down Num Lock, it did produce a sound with a vanilla system.
    – DiMithras
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 20:11
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    Did you try this answer? (N.B. You might want to check whatever you download with virustotal.com and consider that the PC beeper novelty will wear off faster than you can clean your computer of any malware.)
    – Andrew Morton
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 20:43
  • @AndrewMorton it works, thank you!
    – DiMithras
    Commented Aug 25, 2023 at 19:51

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Solution found.
As stated in the comments, this answer did the trick, BEEPX works. It changes the beep.sys driver with a working one. And signed by Microsoft.

Links to the driver:
x86 | x64

Just in case the website is down, here are the fallback links on Gdrive:
x86 | x64

By publishing those fallback links I do not violate the license as stated inside:

License

This Application and Sourcecode may be distributed freely.
The Sourcecode is Licensed in Terms of the GNU GPL v3.
See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Hashsums:

beepx.zip (x86) beepx64.zip (x64)
Size: 71803 bytes (70 KiB) 26868 bytes (26 KiB)
CRC32: 4766B287 6DB259A4
CRC64: 5158EE3F09D4E4BE 2B08DC7BCDB37D51
SHA256: A7F9ED13D1D165482BA9E8A78CD02A48FD8BEC53A4886ECE8B24AD02F60131F8 C36E4E4B34FB99C90A66C115140C59A75980CEACC01F1542421B226A191D53EE
SHA1: 3681907BA22FCB107839CFB17A72CE3B84C96FAA BA6548D98A07634FB9D23BDEC2989BF6FB3B0558
BLAKE2sp: 7567A439B1F789E441D33CD69104F5AC49B621D055332148C8DF924316E66DEB 45B69757948A15C29EAE618EB335581539BFAC2F83B64E610969237EBF4FE0DF

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