Audio problems with CD drive.

[Guest]

I tried playing a music cd in my friend's cd drive and it had a slight stutter, kind of like a frequent restart just a bit further in the cd. I know the cd is ok as it and my others all play well. In that drive, and in that pc they all play with the same stutter.
I played with the 4 permutations that exist with two options. Those options are with/without an audio cable connected between the cd-drive and the motherboard's "cd connector" and with/without "Enable Digital CD" checked in the CD drive's properties page in Device Manager. Unfortunately, all four combinations produce the exact same results... stutter, stutter, stutter, stutter.

I took the drive out of that machine and stuck it into another that has windows 98. Initially, without the cable connected there was no sound. With the cable connected it sounded great.

Being curious, I checked my personal computer and there's no cable installed. I checked in the drive's property page and well, with or without "Enable Digital CD" checked it played just fine. What the heck is that setting for if not to enable/disable bypassing the audio cable? Help, please, I'm lost on this one.

 

[Kelly Cotter]

I tried playing a music cd in my friend's cd drive and it had a
slight stutter, kind of like a frequent restart just a bit further in
the cd. I know the cd is ok as it and my others all play well. In
that drive, and in that pc they all play with the same stutter.
I played with the 4 permutations that exist with two options. Those
options are with/without an audio cable connected between the
cd-drive and the motherboard's "cd connector" and with/without
"Enable Digital CD" checked in the CD drive's properties page in
Device Manager. Unfortunately, all four combinations produce the
exact same results... stutter, stutter, stutter, stutter.

I took the drive out of that machine and stuck it into another that
has windows 98. Initially, without the cable connected there was no
sound. With the cable connected it sounded great.

Being curious, I checked my personal computer and there's no cable
installed. I checked in the drive's property page and well, with or
without "Enable Digital CD" checked it played just fine. What the
heck is that setting for if not to enable/disable bypassing the audio
cable? Help, please, I'm lost on this one.

how does the disk play when you press play on the cd drive itself (if it has
a play button)