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You need the cable from the drive to the sound card.

Tom
"Bobb" <rjschmoe@nospam_netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Anything special about playing cda files on an old (8x) drive in XP ? Via
> IDE cable - not little 4 pin cable.
> Brand new PC with XP. Added an old CD (Teac58-E) to do disk-disk copy if
> needed etc. The Teac works fine EXCEPT for .cda files .I insert a store
> bought CD into the drive and WMP pops up and after 10 seconds it shows the
> label (it's the right label) and shows that it's playing. Well the CD
light
> is blinking but no audio. After 10-15 seconds there may be .5 second of
> audio then another 10-15 seconds and .5 second of audio ( the audio
counter
> shows 00:01 rather than the actual 20-30 seconds). The cd/system is busy
> doing something - other windows hang etc while this is going on. then
maybe
> after a minute, it'll play fine for a little while, then back to no /bad
> audio. MP3's are fine, data is fine.This is the same drive I used on my
> Win2000 box for years, and it was fine. Several CD's - same. After 20
> attempts 1 will play fine. Hit stop - close WMP and reopen - the problem
is
> back. Only variable is WMP closed/reopened. I've check/unchecked the
"enable
> digital" and rebooted - same thing.I thought maybe it had something to do
> with RealPlayer/WMP conflict. I uninstalled Realplayer - same thing. I
went
> to Teac.com - it  (and Microsoft) shows that it's XP compliant etc.
>
> I haven't yet r/r with another drive from my Win2000 box, but I really
don't
> think it's hw. Using the onboard audio (Compaq 5420 Presario). Latest
> updates . Anyone been here ? Something I'm overlooking ? Went into WMP and
> chose to have it as default everything .
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