Headphone Jack dead on CD drive

[Larry Starr]

IBM, P-4, Win XPP, Sony 300CXR CD-DVD drive. Windows Media Player 9.0

The Headphone Jack dead on the CD drive. It was working in the past. I tried
the Fix that is commonly advised, namely require analog playback in
MediaPlayer tools/options. That did not help.

Any advise is appreciated.

Larry

 

[Grant]

IBM, P-4, Win XPP, Sony 300CXR CD-DVD drive. Windows Media Player 9.0

The Headphone Jack dead on the CD drive. It was working in the past. I tried
the Fix that is commonly advised, namely require analog playback in
MediaPlayer tools/options. That did not help.

Any advise is appreciated.

Larry

Try this: go into my computer, right click on your cdrom drive, and click
properties.
Then click the hardware tab, select your cdrom drive from the list, and click
properties again. On the new window, click the properties tab, and unselect
"enable digital cd audio for this cd-rom device".

 

[EGR]

No doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand it,
the headphone jack on the CD is connected internally and is not controlled
by XP or even the computer hardware. It should work even if the CD data and
audio cables are disconnected, and also if there is no driver software
installed.

Therfore if it doesn't work, the problem **HAS** to be with one of the
following:
The CD Drive itself
The CD you are trying to play
The Socket on the front of the CD
The plug, cable or headphones themselves.

 

[Grant]

No doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand it,
the headphone jack on the CD is connected internally and is not controlled
by XP or even the computer hardware. It should work even if the CD data and
audio cables are disconnected, and also if there is no driver software
installed.

Therfore if it doesn't work, the problem **HAS** to be with one of the
following:
The CD Drive itself
The CD you are trying to play
The Socket on the front of the CD
The plug, cable or headphones themselves.

That's true, but most of them don't have a second button to start playing, so
you need to control it with the computer. If the computer tries to read them
digitally, there isn't any audio to come out of the headphone jack.