try changing the tick

Can't remember if it's in the CDROM properties or somewhere else but isn't there a "digital audio" checkbox option that if checked uses the IDE cable instead of the seperate audio cable?

That tick is locked for me, I can't change it 🙁

Ok here's a weird one:
Music plays fine using Windows Media Player 9. Using the normal CD-Player though I still get the same shit!
Blasted Windows 98 :@

No one?

IIRC, under the devices section in WMP there should be digital/analog settings for your CD drive.

I could be wrong but the old cd player might be analog only.

Also another quite infamous issue. Almost all modern optical drives just can't play audio cds by analog way even given the fact that they still have that analog audio out interface. WMP 9 reads audio track in digital that why it works in it.
There is no any info in the net about this issue. Some time ago i tested it with various Optiarc and Asus drives - same problem.
Symptom - cd in drive just don't start to spin, zero volume level isn't problem in this case!

Yeah but the thing is that the drive used to work absolutely fine. You're saying that it was doing everything digitally? What about DOS? It used to work there as well.

F2bnp wrote:

That tick is locked for me, I can't change it 🙁

that is probably because you don't have an audio cable going from your cdrom to your soundcard

I do have an audio cable and I even tried a couple of others in case it was faulty. The problem is that this current drive will work on another computer (using the cable) and it used to work just fine on this pc as well. I tried another drive on this pc and it works like charm.

how is the dvd set up master or slave ?

does it have a headphone socket on the front of it ?
what happens if you plug in some headphones ?
your audio out on the dvd is how many pins ?

There's also an MS article about V,X,D vs WDM sound drivers for CD Audio. So could be a sound card driver issue.

My DVD is on Master and doesn't have a headphone jack or volume control in front. My audio out is the classic 4 pin , the later, black one, not the white one.
My AWE64 has 2 CD-In slots, one is the older type and the other one is the newer one. I've tried both with the same results.
I also tried changing drivers. I guess the next move would be trying out a live CD with ubuntu.

I don't think the operating system has any means of detecting wether the audio cable is actually connected. Did you upgrade the firmware on that drive?

Try something like http://www.frontiernet.net/~fys/cdp.htm from DOS (use the boot menu to get to DOS so Win98 doesn't have a chance to mess with the drive). You'll need mscdex too.

Alright I'll try that as soon as I'm home, Tuesday probably. Thank you 😀

I've had this happen before aswell, the fix for me was to uninstall the device and reinstall it.

Hey h-a-l-9000, I tried the program and it gave me an error code 13.
Music seemed to be playing but alas I couldn't hear it at all.

Apparently a reserved error.

Did you upgrade the firmware on that drive?

If not, the last thing I could think of is to reflash the firmware, if possible.

I'll try, it can't be too hard.
Weird stuff. I tried using a boot disk and the program would run, giving a "device error" error.

I flashed the drive with 2 diferrent FWs and it still didn't work. I'm just going to swap it with another one. Thank you very much for your help everyone!