no sound from headphone socket on both drives

[piaff1]

I have a SB Audio PCI 64 on board chip. A Samsung DVD Rom SD608 and Sony CDRW CRX100. There is no digital audio lead from CDRW therefore I do not expect to get sound through speakers. Recently I have been unable to get any sound through headphone socket on either of these drives. Can any one help.

 

[keithpup]

Go to your control panel and check your multimedia settings. It could be muted or the Audio driver could be corrupted.

 

[piaff1]

I have tried both these suggestions but it's still not working.

 

[ramani]

Hi
There is no need for cables to get sound from speakers for the CDRW. You can get the sound by enabling DIGITAL sound in the CDRWs property. I have two - one DVD and on CDRW. CDRW dont have the cable but I am able to play music. I have to check this for Win98.. but Win2000 device manager-> CDRW. property has by default CDRW.. digital sound enabling... unchecked. Check this.. you will get the sound.
ramani :-9
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[osuman]

Hmmm, it seems that i remember having to connect a special cable when i installed both my cd/cdrw drives. As I recall, there is a small cable with 4 pins that you connect from the back of the drive(s) to the soundcard. I think the instructions said that that was what it was for also. I may be confused though, because i never use that feature. But i think you also need to enable it in the device manager as ramani suggested.