Motherboard-sound problem

[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

 

[Gareth Tuckwell]

You should have a thin grey cable with a 4 pin black (sometime just uses 3
wires) connector on each end. This should plug into the back of the CD drive
and into the 'CD' socket on your sound card. This cable usually comes
bundles with either the CD drive or the sound card. This allows you to play
CDs directly through the sound card. Without it you won't get any sound
directly, but all data transfers will be fine - IDE cable. You should be
able to copy the music from the CD and save it as MP3 or WAV files on the
hard disk, then play it using software. Just search the web for MP3 encoders
or CD rippers - that should give you somewhere to start.

 

[Lieven Vanoirbeek]

You should have a thin grey cable with a 4 pin black (sometime just uses 3
wires) connector on each end. This should plug into the back of the CD drive
and into the 'CD' socket on your sound card. This cable usually comes
bundles with either the CD drive or the sound card. This allows you to play
CDs directly through the sound card. Without it you won't get any sound
directly, but all data transfers will be fine - IDE cable. You should be
able to copy the music from the CD and save it as MP3 or WAV files on the
hard disk, then play it using software. Just search the web for MP3 encoders
or CD rippers - that should give you somewhere to start.

Thanks for the info!

What kind of cable do I exactely need? I have one here with a 4 pins
black connector to the DVD-ROM and a smaller white connector to the
mothermoard. The problem is that the CD 'socket' on my motherboard is
also a bigger 4 pins one.... I cannot connect the cable to the
motherboard with this one.
Are there different kind of cables used for this?

 

[Mac Cool]

Lieven Vanoirbeek:

Are there different kind of cables used for this?

You just bought the computer, contact the person/store you bought it from
and tell them you need the problem fixed.

 

[kony]

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

In Device Manager, Properties for the optical (CD/DVD)
drives, see if there's a check in a box that reads "Enable
Digital CD audio for this CDROM device."

 

[Gareth Tuckwell]

What kind of cable do I exactely need? I have one here with a 4 pins black
connector to the DVD-ROM and a smaller white connector to the mothermoard.
The problem is that the CD 'socket' on my motherboard is also a bigger 4
pins one.... I cannot connect the cable to the motherboard with this one.
Are there different kind of cables used for this?

The cable you need depends on your Sound card. The 4-pin black connector
should fit into your DVD drive. The other end can be another 4-pin black
connector or a 3-pin white connector - it depends on the sound card. Ideally
your sound card should have a socket marked CD-ROM with either the white,
3-pin connector or a 4-pin connector. Look carefully at your sound card
because there might be a few (3 or 4) input connectors - CD, AUX, Mic etc.
In theory you could actually plug into any of these, using the wrong would
would just mean that in Windows, when you go to change the volume for your
CD-Drive, you would have to change Aux instead of CD - no big problem
really! Just use the one that fits your connector and work around the fact
that you have used the wrong plug!

 

[Gareth Tuckwell]

What kind of cable do I exactely need? I have one here with a 4 pins black
connector to the DVD-ROM and a smaller white connector to the mothermoard.
The problem is that the CD 'socket' on my motherboard is also a bigger 4
pins one.... I cannot connect the cable to the motherboard with this one.
Are there different kind of cables used for this?

Also - make sure you are connecting to your sound card. You mention
motherboard above - you are trying one of 2 things - you either have a sound
chip built-in to your motherboard or you are trying to plug into the 3-pin
fan connector. Please DO NOT do that latter - you will send 12v through to
the audio out port of the CD drive and probably break it! Forgive me if you
are doing the former, I just wanted to make sure your are not about to do
damage!!

 

[Shep©]

In Device Manager, Properties for the optical (CD/DVD)
drives, see if there's a check in a box that reads "Enable
Digital CD audio for this CDROM device."

Also in WMP(Windows Media Player),Tools/Options/Devices.Choose CD/DVD
drive/Highlight/Properties and enable digital playback and error
correction.
HTH



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