NO SOUND ON CD-ROM-DRIVE

[europanorama]

I HAVE BOUGHT A NO-NAME FIRST AND A THEN A CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER 128-SOUNDCARD WHEN I REALIZED THAT NO SOUND CAME OUT OF MY EARPHONES CONNECTED TO THE CD-ROM-DRIVE. I CHECKED THIS BY USING A SECOND CD-ROM-DRIVE AND CABLE FROM A WORKING PENTIUM 60.
EARPHONE AND SPEAKER WORK CONNECTED TO SOUNDCARD WORK BUT NO SOUND ON CD-ROM-DRIVE WITH EARPHONES. WHO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE MISTAKE. WINDOWS ME COMPLETELY SETUP FROM SCRATCH. EVERY THING ELSE OK. THANKS . MICHAEL:confused:

[Bsamuels]

did you connect the sound card to the cd rom with the supplied audio cable?

[Antix]

Check to see if you have a 4-pin header cable that came with the drive. Most don't, as they come with the soundcards.

If you have one, make sure that the cable is plugged into the CD-ROM drive, and the cable is connected to "CD_IN" on your soundcard.

[europanorama]

EVERYTHING DOUBLECHECKED. I EVEN USED A WORKING REFERENCE CD-ROM WITH ITS CABLE. THIS WORKED ON A PENTIUM 60. THE DEFECTIVE MSI 5169 VER. 2.1 -BOARD HAS A AMD-K6-2 300/333 TUNED. ITS A RECYCLED BOARD BUILT UP FROM SCRATCH. A FRIEND TOLD ME THAT MAYBE I NEED A MOTHERBOARD DRIVER. I USE THE STANDARD ALI-CHIPSET-DRIVER WHICH COMES FROM WINDOWS ME AUTOMATICALLY. ITS TYPE DIFFERS FROM THE ONE ONBOARD. I DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE TO REPLACE THE BIOS. SOUND WORKS ON SOUNDCARD EVEN WITHOUT CABLE. THE PC WILL GO TO MY CUSTOMER. I DO PC-RECYCLING ALL DAY LONG.
I HAVE 2 P60, ONE IS OK, THE OTHER HAS WORKING SOUND ON THE CD-ROMDRIVE BUT NOT ON ITS SOUNDCARD.... PC-WORLD IS CRAZY.

[vibe666]

i don't think anyone is listening to the question. i think what he means is that he's plugging headphones directly into the jack on the front of the CDROM drive which has nothing to do with the sound card at all, that socket should work even without a soundcard in the machine as its a direct line out from the drive itself.

if its not working then i guess its just a bad socket, maye some solder dropped off it somewhere, but to be honest who really uses them anymore? or ever for that matter?

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[europanorama]

WRONG: I SAID I HAVE TRIED OUT A SECOND DRIVE WHICH WORKED ON A SECOND PC. NO SOUND AT ALL COMING OUT THE JACKET ON FIRST PC. THE DRIVE PUTS OUT SOUND ON PC 2 BUT NOT ON PC 1 VIA DIRECT EARPHONE-JACKET IN THE FRONT.

[userserver]

At least your caps lock key works....

[Antix]

He's typing with either bad english or is a complete newbie...

Toss either the sound card or the drive as either one is probably not working correctly...:p

[userserver]

Originally posted by europanorama
...NO SOUND CAME OUT OF MY EARPHONES CONNECTED TO THE CD-ROM-DRIVE. I CHECKED THIS BY USING A SECOND CD-ROM-DRIVE AND CABLE FROM A WORKING PENTIUM 60.
EARPHONE AND SPEAKER WORK CONNECTED TO SOUNDCARD WORK BUT NO SOUND ON CD-ROM-DRIVE WITH EARPHONES....

Michael I'm a little confused. Are you saying that you can get windows sounds and hear audio CD's when you connect headphones or speakers to the sound card output, but can not hear audio CD's when you plug headphones into the headphone jack on the CD-Rom drive?

If the issue is inability to monitor CD-Rom output through the drive's headphone jack, then the motherboard is not involved.

[frank5]

What he is saying is that he gets sound out of the earphone jack on the drive in question when he tried it in a different computer,
but no sound comes out of the jack when using the same drive in this particular system.
This is a very strange problem since the earphone jack should work in both systems since it is independently powered by the drive and has no relation to the other components. If he is getting sound from that drive, then the earphone jack should work in this system if it worked in the other.
Spooky!

[europanorama]

I HAVE TESTED EVERYTHING. AS A LAST CHANCE I CHANGED THE IDE-CABLE WITHOUT SUCCESS. THE BOARD IS A ATX. MY FIRST ONE AND I HAVE STUDIED THE MANUALS PRECISELY. MAYBE A STRANGE SETTING IN THE CMOS-SETUP IS WRONG. THE PC IS NOW WITH THE CUSTOMER AND I CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE. I SHOULD HAVE DISCONNECTED THE IDE CABLE OF THE CD-DRIVE FROM THE MOTHERBOARD AND RESTARTED THE PC AND FINALLY RECONNECT IT AFTER SHUTTING DOWN. THIS LAST TIP(RELATED TO CD-ROM-PRONBLEM AND NOT MINE) CAME FROM TECHREPUBLIC.COM, A VERY PROFESSIONAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPUTER SITE WITH NEWSLETTERS AND DETAILED INFORMATIONS. YOU ARE VERY CLEVER IF YOU WILL BE MEMBER OF THAT "CLUB".

[userserver]

Originally posted by europanorama
...THIS LAST TIP(RELATED TO CD-ROM-PRONBLEM AND NOT MINE) CAME FROM TECHREPUBLIC.COM, A VERY PROFESSIONAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPUTER SITE WITH NEWSLETTERS AND DETAILED INFORMATIONS. YOU ARE VERY CLEVER IF YOU WILL BE MEMBER OF THAT "CLUB".

been there, done that, got the t-shirt.... i learned of sysopt.com from a techrepublic article.

do you have a handicap that forces you to type messages in caps? most people reserve caps for 'shouting' and many consider use of all caps as poor etiquette... just an observation...

[europanorama]

normally i write like this, but if very busy(i work all around the clock and i was under heavy pressure due to the sound problem) it could happen-very rarely-that I WRITE LIKE THIS. i have learned to write like this(NOT THAT) when using telex-machines in military.

[userserver]

gotcha... (in bothers me less than some others--thought you might be a newbie)