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CD-rom player--front jack sound??

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Name: Serobi
Date: June 22, 2003 at 08:31:53 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home Ed.
CPU/Ram: Intel P3 1.0Ghz/512K ram
Comment:

I just bought a 48x CD-rom player. When I use it for playing music on CD, I must plug my headphones into the BACK of my PC, at the speaker jack, to hear the music. The CD-rom player has a jack for headphones on the front--easy to reach. Is there a way to make sound come out of that jack??? Thanks.



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Response Number 1
Name: Jeck
Date: June 22, 2003 at 08:50:57 Pacific
Reply:

Serobi,

Well, I need to ask the obvious first.

Did you try adjusting the volume knob on the front of the cd-Rom?

Jeck


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Response Number 2
Name: johnoh
Date: June 22, 2003 at 09:10:51 Pacific
Reply:

The cd-rom drive may have a cable behind it that needs to be plugged into the motherboard.


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Response Number 3
Name: Serobi
Date: June 22, 2003 at 09:23:25 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for responses. 1) Yes, tried volume control on front--no result. 2) CD-rom reads software, music, etc. but sound only coming from speaker jack of Vid/Sound card--not from jack on front of CD-rom drive.


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Response Number 4
Name: Serobi
Date: June 22, 2003 at 09:44:24 Pacific
Reply:

So, volume control and front jack BOTH inoperative for playing music CDs. Also, I had same problem with the old CD-rom that I replaced. There may be some setting that I am unaware of. Any others suggestions? Thanks.


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Response Number 5
Name: jack
Date: June 22, 2003 at 09:49:15 Pacific
Reply:

Sound will only come out the front CD headphone jack when you are playing 'audio' CDs. If you are playing MP3s or WAVs on the CD you will have to use the speaker jack in back.


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Response Number 6
Name: northeastpc
Date: June 22, 2003 at 10:06:53 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,
This was mentioned in response #2 but you haven't confirmed. There should be a 3 pin cable that runs from the CD-ROM to the motherboard. Is this present and correctly connected? If so do you have another to try. I had one of these with a bad crimp one time cause the same issue. Hope that helps.


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Response Number 7
Name: Serobi
Date: June 22, 2003 at 11:20:58 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for repsonses. I opened the PC and found such a cable disconnected. I connected it where it should go. Still, no sound or volume from front jack/ctrl. I had another such a cable--new, unused--and swapped cables. Still no jack/v ctrl function. What can we try next?


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Response Number 8
Name: mack
Date: June 22, 2003 at 11:35:42 Pacific
Reply:

Is this audio CDs that you are playing???
Like mentioned in reponse #5, only audio CDs will be heard from the CD jack.


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Response Number 9
Name: campy6@hotmail.com
Date: June 22, 2003 at 12:29:53 Pacific
Reply:

set the cd to be digital sound in properties of the cd drive that will eliminate the need for the cable from the cd to sound card, I believe win xp does that by default as mine is set that way. If you aren't getting sound from front jack you probably have a defective cd drive, you don't even need a sound card to listen to an audio cd out of the front jack


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Response Number 10
Name: Serobi
Date: June 22, 2003 at 13:35:45 Pacific
Reply:

I am playing audio CDs. I have cable connected. I see a 2-pin jack on back of CD-rom drive for "digital audio." Also, I HAVE selected "Enable digital audio" for this hardware device as suggested.
I DID have the same front jack problem with my previous CD-Rom drive. But it worked prior to my upgrade from Win 98 to Win XP. I remember with Win 98 that front jack worked.
I am not so sure that the problem is the hardware. I think I am still overlooking something.
We have covered many bases, yet, with a remanufactured CD-rom just purchased, and with a continuation of a problem that was occuring with a prior unit, and with the factor of the upgrade to Win XP being a potential cause of the problem as per my memory of the front jack working prior to Win XP upgrade on the old unit--old unit failed totally with other unrelated problems weeks after I noticed the front jack problem had begun, are there any more suggestions? Thanks.


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Response Number 11
Name: phil
Date: June 22, 2003 at 14:20:33 Pacific
Reply:

I have to wonder if you are inserting something into the CD's front panel jacks that is damaging the unit. There is nothing in the rest of the system that can cause that problem.


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Response Number 12
Name: XLWH
Date: June 22, 2003 at 17:04:14 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Serobi.


Are you using Media Player?


I found this on another site -


http://www.experts-exchange.com/Manager/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20543645.html


"But I finally found a second 'digital vs analog' setting in device manager for the CDROM drive. Setting both that and MediaPlayer setting to 'analog' got the headphone jack working."


Take care,

Linda


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Response Number 13
Name: jack
Date: June 22, 2003 at 17:28:55 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks very much Linda!
Live and Learn! I've never heard about that Digital/audio line going to a cdrom drive.


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Response Number 14
Name: Serobi
Date: June 23, 2003 at 07:26:35 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks to ALL of you for your time and attention to this.
Review:
I set both the Control Panel > Sounds and Auido Devices and the Media Player's Device playback mode to analog. Guess what? When I tried to play a digitally recorded CD by the Spanish guitar phenomena "Goya", NO sound came through our blessed analog sound jack anyway.
After all has been said and done, I now have an extension cord for my headphones -- now connected to speaker port in back of PC.
This problem was interesting to explore, but not worth further ado.
Thanks for all the attention and time on this. You are all great!! -Serobi


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