Is the CD/DVD audio cables needed?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

I work at a local computer shop and I need to know if audio cables are needed
for CD/DVD drives for Windows XP Home and Pro for CD playback support.
 
Yes, an audio cable should be attached to the CD/DVD drive
and then to the sound card or motherboard (for onboard audio chip).

Attach the audio cable
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6603_7-5118840-8.html

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| I work at a local computer shop and I need to know if audio cables are needed
| for CD/DVD drives for Windows XP Home and Pro for CD playback support.
 
There is no blanket answer in this case. If the drive supports digital
playback, then no the cable is not needed. If the drive does not support
digital extraction, then yes the cable would be needed. I have two opticals
in my system, a DVD burner and a CD burner. Neither has the audio cable
attached and they both work just fine.

Bobby
 
| Yes, an audio cable should be attached to the CD/DVD drive
| and then to the sound card or motherboard (for onboard audio chip).
|
| Attach the audio cable
| http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6603_7-5118840-8.html
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows XP - Shell/User
|
| Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
| http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
|
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
|
| "PCrepairman19" wrote:
|
| | I work at a local computer shop and I need to know if audio cables are
needed
| | for CD/DVD drives for Windows XP Home and Pro for CD playback support.

Not necessarily. More likely necessary for a PCI card than for onboard
audio.
 
It depends on the mother-board. Mine don't need cables from the CD ROM, etc.
to the sound card. It runs through the PCI bus.

JAX
 
PCrepairman19 said:
I work at a local computer shop and I need to know if audio cables are needed
for CD/DVD drives for Windows XP Home and Pro for CD playback support
Click to expand...

They are needed if you want to use the DAC in the drive and send the
audio direct to the sound card. If you set a drive's properties to 'use
digital audio' then it goes in digital form into the machine, may be
processed eg by Media Player's equaliser, and then uses the Sound card's
DAC.

I would though object if I found I had been sold a machine *without* the
cables
 
Fist of all, forgive me for not being more detailed. I work with MSI 651m-v
and ASUS p4c800 motherboards. And they both have on board audio and my issue
is that the customer not having CD audio playing abilities with the XP
series. Because of the lack of not putting a audio cable to the CD-ROM and/or
DVD-ROM.

Thank you guys for your help.
 
Some drives/sound cards will support "Digital CD audio", where the sound is
sent from the CD drive via the IDE port and PCI bus to the sound card.
(You turn this on in device manager, under the CD drive properties).
Otherwise, you connect an analog signal cable from the drive to the soundcard.

Sometimes, which of the above options you choose will affect whether the
earphone jack and volume control on the front of the drive will be functional
or not.

If you work in a computer shop, you should be able to get audio cables for
this purpose for just about no money, and it takes less than 10 seconds to
connect it, so why not, just in case?

"=?Utf-8?B?UENyZXBhaXJtYW4xOQ==?=" <[email protected]>
wrote:
|I work at a local computer shop and I need to know if audio cables are needed
|for CD/DVD drives for Windows XP Home and Pro for CD playback support.
 
Back
Top