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CD Drive Audio Connection

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powerman

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How do I get the audio port on my CD drive to work? I have had several CD drives with this type of connection in the past and I haven't been able to get it to work on any of them. I have connected the 4 pin audio cable to the motherboard. Is there more to it than this? Do I have to enable something in BIOS? In the manual for the NF7-S I didn't see an audio jumper for this. There was a section about a audo connection for the front of the case but I am not using this. I think this is or something else since the pins don't match the back of the CD drive.

I am using an NF7-S with an ATI 9600 XT video card. My CD drive is a LG electronics 16x10x40x cd burner. I am using the audio built into the motherboard for now. So its features are enabled in BIOS.
 
The audio cable for CD drives is only needed for older motherboards. Its not used in newer systems.
 
I have never understood the point of that stupid cable. I didn't connect mine, and when i go and put a music cd in, it plays fine.
 
Actually.. It is OS based. Newer OSes like WinXP do everything digitally over the IDE cable. Older OSes like win95/98 needed the analog or digital audio cable to get the signal to the soundcard/onboard. I'm not sure where the changed occured but I think it might have started with 2K.
 
The cable is an analog cable form the CD-ROM drive to the motherboard/sound card. It's not needed in newer systems because modern CD-ROMs can read digital audio.

To prevent the need for the cable, make sure your CD player program is setup to read digital audio.

What OS are you using?
 
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