Okay i figured it out:
When putting the drive from my armada m700 into it, digital cd playback works just fine.
So i guess the drive has an issue after more than 20 years... sadly

I've had a similar issue with a laptop optical drive in the past and a good cleaning took care of it.

I have the Armada 7792DMT and I have been searching for the CD Drive for what seems like for ever.

Would you be kind enough to post some pictures of the CD Driver itself please?

Also, my speakers don't actually work on mine! Its something I need to fix. Sound does work through the audio jack though.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-06-04, 21:33:

I've had a similar issue with a laptop optical drive in the past and a good cleaning took care of it.

Well since CD ROM reads fine and also cd playback is fine in "analog mode" i guess it doesn´t have issues reading the disk at all.
I also installed Earth Worm Jim 1 from cd and it played fine, also with cd audio ingame.
At least it still works somehow, just have to disable digital cd audio...

Bancho wrote on 2021-06-05, 13:42:

I have the Armada 7792DMT and I have been searching for the CD Drive for what seems like for ever.

Would you be kind enough to post some pictures of the CD Driver itself please?

Also, my speakers don't actually work on mine! Its something I need to fix. Sound does work through the audio jack though.

Well the speakers are connected with the small ribbon cable on the right that goes to the actual sound card which is located at the spot with the power and volume buttons.
So you probably have a broken cable, had the same issue with some spare parts i got.
I wanted to replace the whole screen assembly before dissasembly it (my screen had a dead pixel) but it turned out, the speakers weren´t working.
So i swapped the tft panels itself aswell as the hinches.

And yes i have some pictures for you, good luck finding one 😉
It´s inside some kind of frame, you can probably put another drive inside if you got the frame or found a broken original drive with the frame attached.

multiwirth wrote on 2021-06-05, 15:40:

Well since CD ROM reads fine and also cd playback is fine in "analog mode" i guess it doesn´t have issues reading the disk at al […]
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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-06-04, 21:33:

I've had a similar issue with a laptop optical drive in the past and a good cleaning took care of it.

Well since CD ROM reads fine and also cd playback is fine in "analog mode" i guess it doesn´t have issues reading the disk at all.
I also installed Earth Worm Jim 1 from cd and it played fine, also with cd audio ingame.
At least it still works somehow, just have to disable digital cd audio...

That was the issue I was having just digital audio issues. Installing programs and reading disks we're fine I just gave the lens a good cleaning and everything was normal again.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-06-05, 19:30:

That was the issue I was having just digital audio issues. Installing programs and reading disks we're fine I just gave the lens a good cleaning and everything was normal again.

Well what did you use to clean the lens?
I used a cotton swap, got it wet and used a bit of dish soap to clean it.
After that, i used the other side to dry the lens.
Sadly without success

I used a camera lens cloth and lens cleaner. I do hope your able to salvage your drive

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-06-05, 23:31:

I used a camera lens cloth and lens cleaner. I do hope your able to salvage your drive

well it´s still fully functional except playback of cd audio in digital mode (there´s no difference in sound playing it analog anyways) but idk maybe the processing IC for this feature has gone bad?

btw does anyone know what the latest audio softpaq would be (for audio)?