[wplug] My silent cd player

[Mark Sikora]

Molex cable.  That is what it is called.


On 27 Oct 2002, J Aaron Farr wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:03, Ivan Jager wrote:
> > On 2002.10.22 11:40 John Harrold wrote:
> > > Sometime in October J Aaron Farr assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > >
> > > | Hello.
> > > |
> > > | I had this problem before on another system.  Never did fix it because
> > > | it wasn't really important then.  My cd player doesn't play. ...
> > >
> > > humm... to me it sounds like the cd audio channel is either turned all the
> > > way down or it has been muted. have you checked your mixer (kmix for
> > > example) and made sure the channel is enabled (the green dot under the
> > > disk)? sorry if this seems too basic.
> >
> > Do you have the little audio cable connecting the CD-ROM drive to your sound card?
> > If you are missing that, many players will play, but you won't hear anything.
> > Those would be the players that just tell the drive to play and don't
> > worry about anything.
> >
>
> Okay, I finally had a moment to open up my case and see about that cable
> and sure enough, it looks like I don't have any cable running from the
> CD-ROM drive to the Sound Card.  So what are those cables called and
> anyone know where I can get one?
>
> (or know of another solution?)
>
> jaaron
>
>
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