Trevor Smith wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 1:02 am, Scott Burns wrote:
Check you have a 3 or 4 core wire running from the CDROM to your sound
card. This is in addition to the 4 wire power and 40/80 wire IDE
connector.
Oh my, I don't know whether to laugh or be embarrassed! You know, for years I
didn't pay much attention to this strange defect (my computer would play MP3s
from CDs but not play CD audio from them) but I remember that when it first
occurred I imagined it was a result of some software I had installed. I now
realize that I must have been jiggering with some hardware one day and
disconnected the sound card -- RIGHT! It was when I fried my old Turtle Beach
sound card and bought a new one, I never hooked up the CDROM cable to it. And
I assumed it was some sort of driver issue and never bothered to investigate!
Ug, I can't believe I never bothered to look. :-)
There is a very technical term for this situation:
DOH!
;-)
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