Baffled.........

[jublee]

I have a 500 mhz system, witha dvd drive (the only drive i have) it will play dvd's fine with sound, i get all the online sounds that i should be getting.....i.e new mail etc, but neither musicmatch or real one won't play audio cd's it plays them as i cam see the timer going but i get no sound, i've tried puting the speaker plus into a different socket but nothing.......i'm baffled

[Telexen]

go to the Volume Control (usually in the system tray) ... check the CD Audio volume setting...could be all the way down.

[wju425]

There should be an audio cable running from the back of the rom to the sound card. Without that the only way to hear the audio cds is to plug in your headphone to the jack on the rom.

\o/ Billy

[griobhta]

Actually i havent bothered with one of those cables for ages. most disk drives can handle digital extraction of music and this means that you dont need a cable. I think the option is either in the device manager under the device properties or in the sounds and multimedia section of the control panel somewhere.

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[Siliconjunkie]

Originally posted by griobhta
Actually i havent bothered with one of those cables for ages. most disk drives can handle digital extraction of music and this means that you dont need a cable. I think the option is either in the device manager under the device properties or in the sounds and multimedia section of the control panel somewhere.

g

Agreed, I dont even remember the last time I used one. I have a bunch of them in my pieces/parts box. My bet is on a volume setting somewhere.

[willy_ph]

It could be that the drive isn't setup to read audio digitally.

Control Panel > System > Device Manager > CD-Rom/DVD Drives > Select Drive > Properties. Make sure the "Enable Digital CD Audio" box is selected. Hit Okay and restart if prompted.

[Telexen]

I've NEVER bothered with those cables...the only thing they do use prevent the cpu cyles being taken to play...the sound card will handle it instead if the cable is connected

[jublee]

Tried all those things and still nothing :S

Could it be that my mobo has onboard sound but i'm using a pci sound card and disabled the onboard, and the sound plug from the cd rom drive plugs into the mobo not the sound card??

[wju425]

You just found your problem. The sound plug should go to the card.

\o/ Billy

By the way, that's the cable I was talking about.

[jublee]

Originally posted by wju425
You just found your problem. The sound plug should go to the card.

\o/ Billy

By the way, that's the cable I was talking about.

That's it..........nice 1..........thanks very much mate

[griobhta]

Originally posted by wju425
There should be an audio cable running from the back of the rom to the sound card. Without that the only way to hear the audio cds is to plug in your headphone to the jack on the rom.

\o/ Billy

You got the problem sorted so thats whats important. However i'm feeling cranky tonight so apologies in advanced but there is no way that you could describe the cable from the speaker to the sound card as being the one you described above. We all make mistakes thats how we learn about pc's no need to cover them up.