See system specs below. I have two optical devices on a SCSI chain, a
CD-ROM as drive I: and a burner as H:. The burner can play music files
through the on-board sound, but the player cannot. Both have "Enable
digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device" enabled in Device Manager >
Properties.

For example, when in Windows Explorer and I click on a sound file (MP3, WAV,
etc.) from the CD-ROM, Winamp will appear and indicate the music is playing
as the progress bar moves, but no sound comes from the speakers. When
swapping the medium to the CD burner I get the same result, except music is
reproduced and the VU meter indicates it.

How can I enable the CD-ROM (I to play music?


Motherboard: Gigabyte 8KNXP (non-Ultra)
CPU: 2.8C P4 (not OC'd) with Zalman CNPS7000-Cu HSF
2gb RAM (4 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 in dual-channel mode @ SPD, matched
pairs)
OS: WinXP Pro SP1, all updates
Keyboard: Northgate 102 Ultra (via PS2 adapter)
IDE1 - Maxtor 160gb (8mb buffer) [C:]
IDE2 - WD 100gb (8mb buffer) [D:]
IDE3 - Empty, disabled
IDE4 - Empty, disabled
SATA, all: Empty, disabled
AGP - Matrox G450 DH at 4x
Monitors:
-Sony E540 (21") primary
-Sony A240 (17") secondary
NIC (on board) - Connected to Linksys 4-port router
Networked computers: 3
Sound (on board): Enabled
Firewire (on board): Disabled
PCI1 - Empty
PCI2 - StarTech firewire adapter
- Lexar Compactflash reader/writer [F:]
- WD800BB 80gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [J:]
- WD1200BB 120gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [K:]
PCI2 - AHA-2930B SCSI adapter:
- Plextor 12/10/32TS CD-RW [H:]
- Plextor 32Plex [I:]
- HP 6250 Scanner
- Iomega Zip [E:]
PCI3 - Extra parallel adapter (LPT2)
PCI5 - Empty
LPT1 - Brother HL-645 laser printer
LPT2 - Epson LQ-850 dot-matrix printer
USB:
- Epson Photo Stylus ink-jet printer
- Wacom pen tablet
- Digital Wallet (usually not connected)
COM1 - USR Courier V-Everything external modem (for fax)
COM2 - Empty

Addendum: The files that exist on the CD's are .CDA, not MP3 or WAV. My
bad.

"Bob Davis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gkPxb.2704$US3.1295@okepread03...
> See system specs below. I have two optical devices on a SCSI chain, a
> CD-ROM as drive I: and a burner as H:. The burner can play music files
> through the on-board sound, but the player cannot. Both have "Enable
> digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device" enabled in Device Manager >
> Properties.
>
> For example, when in Windows Explorer and I click on a sound file (MP3,
WAV,
> etc.) from the CD-ROM, Winamp will appear and indicate the music is
playing
> as the progress bar moves, but no sound comes from the speakers. When
> swapping the medium to the CD burner I get the same result, except music
is
> reproduced and the VU meter indicates it.
>
> How can I enable the CD-ROM (I to play music?
>
>
> Motherboard: Gigabyte 8KNXP (non-Ultra)
> CPU: 2.8C P4 (not OC'd) with Zalman CNPS7000-Cu HSF
> 2gb RAM (4 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 in dual-channel mode @ SPD, matched
> pairs)
> OS: WinXP Pro SP1, all updates
> Keyboard: Northgate 102 Ultra (via PS2 adapter)
> IDE1 - Maxtor 160gb (8mb buffer) [C:]
> IDE2 - WD 100gb (8mb buffer) [D:]
> IDE3 - Empty, disabled
> IDE4 - Empty, disabled
> SATA, all: Empty, disabled
> AGP - Matrox G450 DH at 4x
> Monitors:
> -Sony E540 (21") primary
> -Sony A240 (17") secondary
> NIC (on board) - Connected to Linksys 4-port router
> Networked computers: 3
> Sound (on board): Enabled
> Firewire (on board): Disabled
> PCI1 - Empty
> PCI2 - StarTech firewire adapter
> - Lexar Compactflash reader/writer [F:]
> - WD800BB 80gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [J:]
> - WD1200BB 120gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [K:]
> PCI2 - AHA-2930B SCSI adapter:
> - Plextor 12/10/32TS CD-RW [H:]
> - Plextor 32Plex [I:]
> - HP 6250 Scanner
> - Iomega Zip [E:]
> PCI3 - Extra parallel adapter (LPT2)
> PCI5 - Empty
> LPT1 - Brother HL-645 laser printer
> LPT2 - Epson LQ-850 dot-matrix printer
> USB:
> - Epson Photo Stylus ink-jet printer
> - Wacom pen tablet
> - Digital Wallet (usually not connected)
> COM1 - USR Courier V-Everything external modem (for fax)
> COM2 - Empty
>
>
>

Update #2. It seems the I: drive won't play .CDA files but will play MP3's
and WAV's.

"Bob Davis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:gkPxb.2704$US3.1295@okepread03...

> See system specs below. I have two optical devices on a SCSI chain, a
> CD-ROM as drive I: and a burner as H:. The burner can play music files
> through the on-board sound, but the player cannot. Both have "Enable
> digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device" enabled in Device Manager >
> Properties.
>
> For example, when in Windows Explorer and I click on a sound file (MP3,
WAV,
> etc.) from the CD-ROM, Winamp will appear and indicate the music is
playing
> as the progress bar moves, but no sound comes from the speakers. When
> swapping the medium to the CD burner I get the same result, except music
is
> reproduced and the VU meter indicates it.
>
> How can I enable the CD-ROM (I to play music?
>
>
> Motherboard: Gigabyte 8KNXP (non-Ultra)
> CPU: 2.8C P4 (not OC'd) with Zalman CNPS7000-Cu HSF
> 2gb RAM (4 x 512mb Kingston DDR400 in dual-channel mode @ SPD, matched
> pairs)
> OS: WinXP Pro SP1, all updates
> Keyboard: Northgate 102 Ultra (via PS2 adapter)
> IDE1 - Maxtor 160gb (8mb buffer) [C:]
> IDE2 - WD 100gb (8mb buffer) [D:]
> IDE3 - Empty, disabled
> IDE4 - Empty, disabled
> SATA, all: Empty, disabled
> AGP - Matrox G450 DH at 4x
> Monitors:
> -Sony E540 (21") primary
> -Sony A240 (17") secondary
> NIC (on board) - Connected to Linksys 4-port router
> Networked computers: 3
> Sound (on board): Enabled
> Firewire (on board): Disabled
> PCI1 - Empty
> PCI2 - StarTech firewire adapter
> - Lexar Compactflash reader/writer [F:]
> - WD800BB 80gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [J:]
> - WD1200BB 120gb on firewire adapter (normally not running) [K:]
> PCI2 - AHA-2930B SCSI adapter:
> - Plextor 12/10/32TS CD-RW [H:]
> - Plextor 32Plex [I:]
> - HP 6250 Scanner
> - Iomega Zip [E:]
> PCI3 - Extra parallel adapter (LPT2)
> PCI5 - Empty
> LPT1 - Brother HL-645 laser printer
> LPT2 - Epson LQ-850 dot-matrix printer
> USB:
> - Epson Photo Stylus ink-jet printer
> - Wacom pen tablet
> - Digital Wallet (usually not connected)
> COM1 - USR Courier V-Everything external modem (for fax)
> COM2 - Empty
>
>
>