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    cd drive audio cable

    have now had the pleasure of working with 3 different emachines which blew the psu and taking the mb with it.

    now i have noticed that none of them use a audio cable from the cd/dvd drives to the mb. so how are they doing this?

    also sorry, keyboard just lost caps! time to go dig out another one.

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    the audio data goes over the ide cable now. audio cables haven't been used for along time.

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    ok, that's how much i've paid attention.
    then why was it that when i reset up my sons machine we were not getting any audio until i installed a cable?

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    what OS are you running? win9x had an analog cd player. use WMP instead and it should work fine.

    You'll rarely see those cables in a win2k or xp system.

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    mostly w2k and 1 xp that is running w/o the cable. must have been that my machine was dual boot, win98 and 2k.
    but now i'm curious and will have to remove the cable now that i no long have 98 on mine.

    thanks!

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    I think the only time I've seen the cable come in handy anymore is for the audio jack on the player itself , if it has one .

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