Unless the user has a driver installed for the speaker (which is normally provided with a sound card), you essentially can't make any noise.
You can try adding the old SPEAKER driver available at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/SPEAK.EXE but please understand that the quality will be very poor.
Inexpensive sound cards are pretty easy to located, though. You might nose around your local area to see if there are any PC recycling places (or what I call "parts bins" nearby. You can usually get an old Soundblaster for something like $10 or less. Even the cheapest sound card will be a marked improvment over the speaker.
Does the computer beep once when it is booting? If so then the PC speaker works, otherwise open up the box and see if it's connected to the right pins on the motherboard.
If it's not connected or is connected to the wrong pins, fix it, it it's on the right pins, then you probably have a dead speaker.
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