Hmm, I believe that the sound for VCD and DVD are encoded in the file so do
not take the audio path into the sound card.
First, check to see if any sound is coming out of the CD player. Put a set
of headphones into the jack on the front of the player.
And then for the hard part. You may have to remove the soundcard from the
computer. Almost all soundcards have a 4-pin audio cable connector. Now,
just because the connector fits physically doesn't mean that it's the right
one. Follow the trace leads on the soundcard. There should be two thin ones
and a thicker one. The thick one will be the Common lead and the two thin
ones will be the Laft and Right channels. Now look at the connector coming
from the CD player. Do the three wires line up with the three traces on the
circuit board? It is possible that the Common lead should be on pin-2
instead of pin-3 or the other way around.

----------L
----------Common
----------nc
----------R


Winston Pike

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Still unable to play CD


> Hi, my friends.
> I tried to connect the audio cable from the sound card to either the old
CD or the new DVD, and yet I'm still unable to get either of them to play
CD, although they can play VCD and DVD all right. I tried to run both
Microsoft Multimedia Player and Windows' CD player to play CD and both
program ran properly but no sound came from the speakers! Do I need to
reinstall the sound card driver and re-set some value?
> Many thanks in advance!
>
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