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Weird, But why Worry!

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by amnezia

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Recently I added a CDRW/CDR to an existing setup. I've got two audio ports on the sound card, so connected each CD to a separate port. The CDRW (new) worked OK, sound fine, but the existing 48x CDROM had no sound. I disconnected the existing CDROM audio cable, and later inserted a music CD fogetting the cable was disconnected. Didn't make any difference, sound came out the speakers all the same. Nice crisp clean audio. Now I can listen to a music cd in the new CDRW, which is connected to the sound card, and also from the 48x CDROM which is not connected to the sound card. I'm not worried about why this has happened - it works! But has anyone heard about this happening?

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by mainprized

If you are using XP in the properties of the CD you can enable digital playback this might be how it happened.

by hal 9000

I've seen numerious of the cheap games computers fitted out this way without an audio lead anywhere inside these units and the all seem to work with out any problems provided they are on an IDE line.

While I still fit these leads it may be a left over from previous times or the fact that I don't always work with XP or the 2000 series of Windows so I see the $1.50 AU for this lead as just a thing to put in without costing much and then forget about it. However Yhis I am certian of if you n=have and SCSI CD/DVD drives either players or burners they do need this lead as no sound plays when this lead isn't fitted or to put it more correctly they don't on amy computer that I've ever built anyway.

by 1stladytech

If you check the properties of the cd drives in Device manager, enable digital audio is enabled on the drive. It then uses the data stream through the ide cable through the sound card (or so it seems) to play the sound. That will work for many things, but it takes overhead on your system. The sound jack on the front of the cd will also not work when it is configured this way (it is analog only) I like to listen with head phones when I work at night as to not wake up my children, so I configure the systems to use the cable and not digital audio.

Vickie

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