CD sound and motherboard

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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
 
Lieven said:
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
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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.
 
Dee said:
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.
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The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....
 
Lieven said:
The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....
Click to expand...

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?
 
Dee said:
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?
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Media Player, the integrated CD-player or the dvd program: with none of
them sound
 
The sound chip is onboard.
I cannot hear anything trough my speakers from the DVD, Windows sounds
no problem....
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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.
 
Lieven Vanoirbeek said:
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
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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
 
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