My name is Thomas and I have a problem. I am planning on buying a new DVD drive So I opened up my computer to see if it could allow the expansion. I encounteres two problems. One is that there are no more free IDE controller ports on the motherboard. I had three. One for CD-ROM drive, the other for 3 1/2 floppy drive, and the other for a removable har drive. I already found out how to fix this problem by using a dual IDE cable so tha I will be able to hook up CD-ROM drive and DVD drive to one IDE controller port on the motherboard. The second problem though is that I dont have any more audio ports on the sound card left. The only one I had left id taken up by my CD-ROM drive. What I want to know is if I wouldn't need to hook it up to the audio port since I'm sharing and IDE cable with the CD-ROM drive which is hooked up to the audio port on the sound card or is if I can purchase a dual audio controller cable to share between drives. If I can purchase please specify where.

Thanks

You should not need the audio cable on windows XP.

Try it out and see.

I don't think you need to hook up the audio connection on the DVD drive. Mine Creative DVD drive doesn't have audio cable hooked up and it still plays audio cd and dvd just fine.
click on the link if you want to buy a
dual cd-rom interface

I never hook up audio cables on anything and never notice their absence. I think that it's only for CD ROMs with the play button on the front, to play the CDs directly fromt he CD ROM without playing them through software on the computer.