🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:25:38 +1300, "cowboy" <cowboyz@actrix.gen.nz>
wrote:

>well well.. let me see how far I got tonight..   I think my first problem si
>my opti sound card which I am really starting to dispise!..
>the sound card is set up to ignore the cdrom.  in the setup for the
>soundcard it asks if you want to use the ide port on the sound card or the
>motherboard.  I choose the m/b and it decided to put a command in my
>config.sys file to turn my cd off.  So I spent 2 hours figuring that out and
>ended up deleting my ide drivers/ cdrom and sound card and set it all up
>again.  Once again the sound card decided to interfer with the config.sys
>and put lines in there relating to the cdrom.  So I went and deleted all of
>them and reinstalled mcexc  or what ever the hell that cd rom thing is.  Now
>I have my cd back but I can't play audio cd's through ANY program.   I can
>however hit the play button on the front of my cd and listen to music.  This
>is only a problem with audio.  Data cd's have no trouble.
>I am convinced that this is a problem with the setup files in the soundcard
>although I have downloaded every f..g file relating to this sound card and
>they all did the same thing..   I built this system and when I set it up the
>very first time it did not ask me what ide interface I wanted to use.  That
>is a new thing!  Not sure where it came from.
>
>ok  programs I have tried ripping cds with.
>
>audio grabber
>easy da extractor 3
>music match 4

Actually I have an OPTI sound card on this machine (my older machine,
which is a Pentium 120) and it seems to work fine.

Firstly the IDE setting has *nothing* to do with the audio output -
it's asking you whether you want to enable the IDE connection on the
sound card - this is essentially a disk controller connection, a data
connection for a CD ROM (not the analogue audio connection). Where
does the big flat ribbon cable from your CD ROM drive connect to? (The
one that's about 1 1/2 - 2 inches across, usually pale grey or pale
blue, with a red line down one side...) If that cable connects to the
soundcard, *then* you want to enable the IDE interface on the
soundcard, otherwise don't. Again, this has *nothing* to do with
playing CD audio through the sound card! There is another cable that
comes out of the CD drive, a thin little cable, just two or three
strands of wire, a millimetre or so thick, with a small rectangular
connector a little over 1/4 inch across on the end - *that* is the
analogue audio connector, and it should always be connected to your
soundcard - there should be a place, normally on the corner of the
card, where three square pins stick up, and that analogue audio
connector plugs onto them... usually it will say something like "audio
in" beside it.

Xorys

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