First post, by Gahhhrrrlic
Everybody's familiar with that 4 pin cable going from your CD-ROM down to a header on your sound card of choice. Personally, I never really understood what it was doing though. I could never tell if it was actually being used because CD music seemed to play regardless.
However on my current build, I still haven't gotten CDs to play yet. I'm wondering if this is a software issue (no adequate program to recognize and play CD music formats) or a hardware issue (put the plug in backwards, bad cable, bad ports?
What's the general procedure for connecting CD music on an old machine? Is there a way to verify that it's working? I mean, you install the cards and all, connect the cable to the sound card header and plug it into the CD-ROM, boot up the machine and try to play some music. That's what I did anyway and it didn't work, so what would be the next step?
I'm using an ESS AudioDrive card and have the AudioRack software installed with the 3 sound decks (the bottom one being the CD player). Currently the CD player is all grayed out but the other 2 (wav and midi) work fine. I was going to download a 3rd party cd player but thought I'd ask about this cable thing first.