stupid sound won't play cd's

[kartoffel]

The sound card in the dragon is looking worse and worse every day. First is doesn't support analog speakers and now this.

I am trying to get cd sound to come out of the sound card but with no luck. My cdrom only came with an analog cable. so I plugged it into the cdrom and into the space on the mother board. The one in between the pci slots. but no sound.

So looking in the destruction manual I found it said make sure to plug the 3 prong cable in. Well there is no 3 prong cable. Do I have to use the cd spdif in to get sound in windows? Are their some setting in the drivers that need setting? If I have to use the digital cd in why do they have the analog ins?

and finally can I get a digital cdrom cable at radio shack? I'd ask there but they are a bunch of morons here.

otherwise the mobo is awesome.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[knack4it]

To get sound out of your dragon do the following. Have cd drive working. Have sound enabled inbios. Use standard 4pin (but some may have only 3 conductors present) analog sound cable. Plug flat black end into cdrom with lock tab appropriate. On other end, depending if you have the same end as the cdrom end or the white mitsumi style, plug that into the board.

As long as your cmedia device is detected, your drivers will load ok. You will get a cmedia volume control panel/mixer, giving you all the options. You should be able to get all normal sounds. I do. I am using the latest cmedia drivers form thier website. I also found that video card drivers can interfere with sound and vice-versa. Also you can try muting everything but volume, cd volume and wave.

I does work just fine. I have had no probs once I got new video drivers and updated the sound.

Later.

 

[LiquidConfusion]

There also is a new driver for that c-media chip you can get it at windows update site

 

[crazyman]

The sound card in the dragon is looking worse and worse every day. First is doesn't support analog speakers and now this.

Thanks,
Jeff

I am not sure what you mean by "digital" speakers?

I have an old pair of "jbl Pro" basic amplified speakers that work great!
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and dude! I have my cdrom cable plugged into the analog slot on the cdrom and the other end in the same slot on the mobo you have(between pci slots) and it works and plays cd's just fine,and it works good whether I have the cdrom win settings on digital or analog.

you may have some other problems.

what player do you have? Real? win media player? or what?
what comes on after you insert a music cd?

 

[kartoffel]

Ok here goes:

Crazyman: Do your old JBL speakers plug in with a 1/8" headphone-stlye jack? If so how did you get that to work? I've been trying to get a set of speakers with the headphone jack to work for days and I can't.

I was just trying to use that cd rack player that comes with the soyo drivers. Wave and mp3 sound plays fine with windows media or the soyo player.

I've got the new drivers from windows update.

I know the cable is hooked up correctly.

As to conflicts with sound and video. I had some problems with that and the new nvidia drivers. (IE windows wouldn't bootand when it did either sound or video was acting crazy) So that may be the problem. What should I do? Both my sound and video use irq 11. But they do on my other computers too. Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeff

 

[crazyman]

Ok here goes:

Crazyman: Do your old JBL speakers plug in with a 1/8" headphone-stlye jack? If so how did you get that to work? I've been trying to get a set of speakers with the headphone jack to work for days and I can't.

I was just trying to use that cd rack player that comes with the soyo drivers. Wave and mp3 sound plays fine with windows media or the soyo player.

I've got the new drivers from windows update.

I know the cable is hooked up correctly.

As to conflicts with sound and video. I had some problems with that and the new nvidia drivers. (IE windows wouldn't bootand when it did either sound or video was acting crazy) So that may be the problem. What should I do? Both my sound and video use irq 11. But they do on my other computers too. Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeff

the wire that comes out of the speakers is the standard size plug that is on most pc speakers that plugs directly into the mobo jacks for sound.

and my vid card and sound are both on IRQ 11 and working fine that way,what else do you have in pci slots? is there anything else sharing irq 11?,

did you try another set of speakers yet?

and maybe try removing the sound and let windows re-install it?

well if it plays mp3 and wav ok,then it's not the speakers or plug,it sounds like a cdrom problem or windows setting/configuration problem?

or bad mobo? or bad cdrom?

 

[kartoffel]

I have 2 sets of speakers one has rca coax inputs and those are the ones that work. The ones with headphone-type inputs don't work; ironically the headphone jack speakers are newer.

I don't have any other pci cards. My modem is the only other addon and it is plugged into serial port. I think the network shares irq 11 but I don't have it set up but I don't think it is disabled in the bios.

BTW, I'm using win98. When I go home for lunch I'll check that headphones plugged directly into cdrom make sound. I know that I'll never get any help from soyo so I'm getting worried.


should I enable pnp os in the bios? I don't have it enabled because I use linux a lot on this machine and I think it should be turned off for that.

Thanks,
jeff

 

[kartoffel]

Well I'm a putz.

I was checking to see if the headphone output on the cdrom worked and then I was looking at the back of the computer with the headphones in my hand and I found the "other" sound outputs that aren't on the sound card. Of course I have no idea how I missed these outputs for 2 weeks. I just thought all sound would be on the soundcard.

So now cd sound works and the other speakers work. I guess to get cd sound from the spdif output you have to use that cable to connect the cdrom.


Feeling stupid, yet happy.
Jeff

 

[crazyman]

Well I'm a putz.

I was checking to see if the headphone output on the cdrom worked and then I was looking at the back of the computer with the headphones in my hand and I found the "other" sound outputs that aren't on the sound card. Of course I have no idea how I missed these outputs for 2 weeks. I just thought all sound would be on the soundcard.

So now cd sound works and the other speakers work. I guess to get cd sound from the spdif output you have to use that cable to connect the cdrom.


Feeling stupid, yet happy.
Jeff

well great! you got it figured out,,,