I added a second cd-rom drive to my daughter's pc last night so she could listen to music while playing games, etc. with the original cd drive (different brand and model). The second cd drive plays with clear sound, but the original cd drive now sounds fuzzy. I tried a different cable to the sound card, checked for pinched wires, no change. Sound card has 4 connection points - aux1, aux2, and 2 cd connections with different shaped connectors. Aux 1 and 2 provided no sound, I plugged the 2nd drive into the unused cd connection. The machine has 2 hard drives on primary cable as master and slave, cd drives are on secondary cable, also as master (original) and slave (new drive). Running win98se. I did swap the secondary cable since I needed more length between the 2 cd drives than the original cable had. I did not yet try a different cable. Any ideas how to clean up the sound? Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml