CD sound and motherboard

[Lieven Vanoirbeek]

Hello


I bought a new PC with a PC DDR266 Systemboard (Socket A M811 series)for
an Athlon XP 2.4.
I installed Win2k Pro on it and everything works fine except I have no
sound from any CD or DVD. I can hear all the sounds in Windows but
nothing from the DVD-player!
There is no "sound-cable" between my motherboard and the DVD-player. Is
it possible that the sound goes trough the IDE-cable????

I'm not really an expert in these cases....

Thank you

Lieven

 

[Dee]

Hello


I bought a new PC with a PC DDR266 Systemboard (Socket A M811 series)for
an Athlon XP 2.4.
I installed Win2k Pro on it and everything works fine except I have no
sound from any CD or DVD. I can hear all the sounds in Windows but
nothing from the DVD-player!
There is no "sound-cable" between my motherboard and the DVD-player. Is
it possible that the sound goes trough the IDE-cable????

I'm not really an expert in these cases....

Thank you

Lieven

When you say 'nothing from the DVD-player', do you mean the front
earphone plug or what?

And yes, the music is being read through the IDE cable to whatever
program your using to play the CD. I believe in most cases it is
converted to a wave configuration and then play through your sound card.
I know the wave volume controls the music volume on my system.

 

[Lieven Vanoirbeek]

When you say 'nothing from the DVD-player', do you mean the front
earphone plug or what?

And yes, the music is being read through the IDE cable to whatever
program your using to play the CD. I believe in most cases it is
converted to a wave configuration and then play through your sound card.
I know the wave volume controls the music volume on my system.

The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....

 

[Dee]

The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....

I must admit I have no experience with Win2k Pro, but since it shares
much of the WinXP code, I would think there should be some similarities.

Are you using the Windows Media Player, or some other program?

 

[Lieven Vanoirbeek]

I must admit I have no experience with Win2k Pro, but since it shares
much of the WinXP code, I would think there should be some similarities.

Are you using the Windows Media Player, or some other program?

Media Player, the integrated CD-player or the dvd program: with none of
them sound

 

[Wes Newell]

The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....

Hook up the 4pin (3 wire usually) connector between the CD/DVDplayer and
the MB sound connector (CD1). Going over the IDE cable uses up processor
and PCI bandwidth and also requires support.

 

[malcolm]

Hello


I bought a new PC with a PC DDR266 Systemboard (Socket A M811 series)for
an Athlon XP 2.4.
I installed Win2k Pro on it and everything works fine except I have no
sound from any CD or DVD. I can hear all the sounds in Windows but
nothing from the DVD-player!
There is no "sound-cable" between my motherboard and the DVD-player. Is
it possible that the sound goes trough the IDE-cable????

I'm not really an expert in these cases....

Thank you

Lieven

properties of the DVD/CD drive, select ' use digital audio'
windows then will access it and route the wav data through your sound device
digitaly.
you get a cleaner sound this way rather than using analog cables.
regards malcolm