how many rom drives do you have. if possible open the tower to look at the back end of the rom drives. you should see 3 cables, the 1 closes to you that has 1 red, 2 black & 1 yellow is the power. the next 1 is either a 40wire or 80wire 40pin connector data cable. the 3rd cable is your audio cable that is mostly gray till near the drive than you see a red, 1 or 2 blacks & a white wire going into a connector. do you have that cable in your tower??
yes thats hooked up currently to my dvd rom drive i have my dvd rom drive and my dvd burner in both with the power plugs, the connector, but only my dvd rom drive has the audio cable they are set right as in master/slave settings so i dunno what the deal is
is the other end plugged into the motherboard or a sound card?? you tried both rom drives but no sound, correct?? try another audio cable. are you getting sound from your computer at all??
yes they are plugged into the moboard and both dont get sound but yes i have sound thru my speakers when i play music and other videos i have on my cup
sounds like the audio cable might have a broken wire. does the drives have a mini jack on the front end to plug headphones or speakers to see if get sound comming from there??
yeah they do plug some headphones into the front of the drive and see if i get sound from a dvd? if i do the wires messed up?
did you check the volume control on the drives. sounds like both drives sound section is burnt out for some reason.
checking the volume control on the drives? Is that different than just checking the volume control under accessories and entertainment?
are you referring to the lil volume thing i can touch on the outside of the drive by the head phone jack? if not please explain how i get to this
if both drives have an audio cable installed, remove 1 from a drive to see if any sound than do the same with the other drive. can you try the drives on another computer to see if problem follows or not?? when you cranked the volume on the front of the drive, was that with the speakers plugged into the front jack or the back 1 as volume control works on the front 1 only
well i dont have another cpu to try it on and i only have one audio cable, but i pretty much tried them in both burner and dvd rom drive ok i do have speakers hooked up to the back of my cpu that work, that wouldnt effect if i put headphones in my dvd rom jack right? It should play there correct? if so still no go there
don't play the speakers to long but for testing purposes than should be all right. if get sound thru front end of drive than either the audio cable has a break in it or possible damage to onboard soundcard. can get another audio cable that has same connectors as your's has to see if it is the audo cable or onboard soundcard. if onboard soundcard is the problem, can disable it in the bios & install a pci soundcard. if it is the rom drives causing the problem than replace the dvd rom drive as it is cheaper of the 2 drives as it goes for about $26Can for a LG 16x dvd rom
ok thanks for the help man sorry im having so much trouble im thinking its the card or the cable i dont have another cable so i dunno what i can do
an audio cable might be a couple of dollars. if you have or know somebody who has a multimeter to do a resistance or continuity check on the cable
think walmart would have the cable? Goin to walmart this weekend and if so is there a certain one or are they all standard same size?
