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First post, by RetroPCP4W98

Posted on 2023-08-12, 20:08

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Hi everyone, this is my first thread on the forum, I'm having trouble getting analog audio from my IDE dvd drive to output to my sound card which is a Sound Blaster Live! CT4780, I have an analogue cable and a digital one, but when I insert a music CD into my PC, it doesn't transmit the audio. If anyone knows how to configure the audio on this sound card I would be very grateful.
My Retro Pc specs:
Motherboard - Gigabyte i865gm-775
Pentium 4 3,20ghz
2 HDD 80gb
LG DVD RW IDE Drive GSAH 55n
Nvidia Geforce fx5200 128mb
1,25gb Ddr400 ram
Soundblaster Live! CT4780
Network Card 3com 905cx
Windows 98 Second Edition

Reply 1 of 4, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2023-08-12, 22:43

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I have my Win98 SE computer updated with the update CD from here: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=873

I mention that because for all I know it might make a difference, but probably not in this case (it does now have WMP 9). I have an SB Live 5.1 card, and one of the optical drives has an analog cable going to the sound card, the other does not. When I put a music CD in either drive, WMP comes up and it begins playing. What exactly happens when you put a CD in your optical drive? Does Windows Media Player open and you have no sound?

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Reply 2 of 4, by RetroPCP4W98

Posted on 2023-08-12, 23:33

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-08-12, 22:43:

I have my Win98 SE computer updated with the update CD from here: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=873

I mention that because for all I know it might make a difference, but probably not in this case (it does now have WMP 9). I have an SB Live 5.1 card, and one of the optical drives has an analog cable going to the sound card, the other does not. When I put a music CD in either drive, WMP comes up and it begins playing. What exactly happens when you put a CD in your optical drive? Does Windows Media Player open and you have no sound?

When i put music cd on drive the windows media player open but i have no sound.

Reply 3 of 4, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2023-08-13, 04:48

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Other than this the sound card is working normally? Did the CD audio accidentally get muted? Does CD Audio show up normally when you open volume control?

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Reply 4 of 4, by darry

Posted on 2023-08-13, 05:28

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As mentioned here Sound Blaster Live! Cd audio and Spdif input not Working! , the GSA-H55N has no dedicated digital or analogue audio output. There is no way to physically connect it to a soundcard and get CD audio out of it .

EDIT : This might help you get CD audio to stream through the IDE bus : https://msfn.org/board/topic/138504-problem-n … -digital-audio/

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