Despite spending 25 years working with computers, I retired in 1994 and am not up to date. Someone has e.mailed an attachment which requires me to listen to it. But I do not have any sound. Is there a speaker built into my tower or do I have to buy a pair of speakers. Someone said 'just turn your volume up and see how it goes' But where is the volume knob. So can someone tell me if you definitely need to purchase external speakers in order to have sound. Are there any towers with inbuilt speakers? HELP!!:confused:

All hard drivers have a speeker, the thing that beeps when ya turn computer on. buts thats all about you get out of it :hihi:

Surely the giveaway is when your PC boots up into Windows....
Do you hear a 'jingle' as it's doing so?

Mike,
your built in system speaker, or it may be a little piezo thing is a poor quality speaker which is only really good enough for bleeps.
You need to have an internal soundcard and some external speakers to listen to speech and music.

Some years ago I had a sound driver which could use a system speaker as a windows sound driver but it was pretty bad, and sounded like hearing a headphone from underneath a pillow, due to the poor quality of these built in system speakers, and the way they are located in the case.

There will be a headset socket in the rear of your motherboard,actually the sound board , buy a pair of speakers which cost $5 here in the States,and plug them in.If you don't get sound turn the volume up on the computer and the speakers.If there is no socket go and buy a sound board. Make sure you install it correctly.

Click on START, Click on CONTROL PANEL, Click on SOUNDS & AUDIO DEVICES
Click on VOLUME tab, move the pointer along from LOW towards HIGH, Click OK.
Do all of above after checking that a speaker or speakers are connected in
the socket at the back of the Tower Block, it is usually a small green socket
marked AUDIO OUT.

Click on START, Click on CONTROL PANEL, Click on SOUNDS & AUDIO DEVICES
Click on VOLUME tab, move the pointer along from LOW towards HIGH, Click OK.
Do all of above after checking that a speaker or speakers are connected in
the socket at the back of the Tower Block, it is usually a small green socket
marked AUDIO OUT.

Although you are trying to be helpful, the original poster was enquiring 20 months ago. I am sure that they were using an older PC with no sound. Probably no soundcard or built in sound.
Chances are they have probably skipped it in the intervening time. And got given a new one.

I had the same trouble that Mike.

Definitively have got to buy speakers.:loopy: