audio CDs dosen't play

Make sure the sound wire is firmly connected to the CD-ROM drive and the sound card, if it is not this will solve your problem. If this does not work the sound wire may be connected backwards to the sound card or on the wrong pins. Can you hear sounds that do not come from CD's ie "Windows sounds". If you cannot hear Windows sound either your sound card is bad or it does not have the correct drivers installed.

Make sure that the cable that runs from the cdrom drive to the soundcard is plugged into the right socket, my soundcard, for example which is a Soundblaster 16, has two other slots, one for a TV tuner, and one for a different type of cdrom. If it iscorrect, make sure in your sound properties (the small speaker icon at in the system tray), that the CD Audio balance isn't muted. Also, just check around in the control panel at your Cdrom, soundcard properties and multimedia settings, and look foranything that you think cound hinder playing cd's. Hope this helps.

make sure the speaker is in your system tray.

right click it, then go to advanced audio settings. A list of all the inputs to your soundcard should be present. Make sure your cd-rom or auxilary sound is turned up and not muted. also, you could test the cd-rom audio cable with a voltmeter to make sure it is properly connected

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