Headphones do not work.

[Spacemonkey]

I try to plug headphones into the jack on the CD-ROM
drive, but I can never get the sound to work through it.
All audio continues to come through my speakers. Can
anyone help me with this problem?

 

[Nathan McNulty]

This may be the way the computer was built. The CD ROM has to be
connected to the sound card with a special cable and the sound card has
to support this. Personally, I have never connected the audio cable
because my speakers have a jack on the front of them. The only thing I
know of that mutes the speakers when you plug in a jack that goes on the
front of your computer is the Front Panel for the Audigy 2 Platinum.

 

[V Green]

This may be the way the computer was built. The CD ROM has to be
connected to the sound card with a special cable and the sound card has
to support this. Personally, I have never connected the audio cable
because my speakers have a jack on the front of them. The only thing I
know of that mutes the speakers when you plug in a jack that goes on the
front of your computer is the Front Panel for the Audigy 2 Platinum.

What's probably happening here is that digital audio is
enabled for the drive. If you do that, there will be no
analog audio to the front panel jack.

To turn digital audio off:

Device Manager>>DVD/CDROM Drive>>select your drive>>
Properties>>Properties>>uncheck "Enable digital CD audio
for this CD-ROM device."

Note that when you do this, your speakers will probably
stop working unless there's an analog cable connected
internally from the drive to the sound hardware.