[ale] never mind re:SoundBlaster install

[Scott Castaline]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon February 27 2006 10:12 pm, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>   
>> I'm ashamed to say that all I needed to do was plug the speakers
>> into the CDROM player instead of the sound card's spkr out
>> connection  :-) actually it's worse than that, I didn't even know
>> the CD player had a spkr outlet....
>>
>> While I'm at it,... when would the spkr out connection on the sound
>> card be used ?
>>     
>
> this happened to a friend of mine YEARS ago. there should be a 
> connection inside the computer, that goes from the CD-ROM to the sound 
> card. You are probably missing that little cable. The CD sound 
> "normally" should be connected to the sound card, where your speakers 
> are plugged in, it makes sense.
>
>   
Very true. There are 3 cables that go to the CD; Pwr., Data, Audio. The 
audio cable is the thin round cable that goes to the sound board or to 
the connector on the Mobo if it has integrated sound.