Installed new CDR/W drive but no sound from it....help...

[LubeDog]

I just installed a Sony CRX-160E 12x-8x-32x CDR/W Drive this week...and I love it...but I digress.


I have a Gateway P3 500mhz PC with a Pioneer DVD-114 DVD-Rom drive installed. After installing the Sony CDR drive I noticed that I cannot get sound output from CD's played through the CDR Drive. The DVD drive outputs sound fine. I am not sure I hooked it up correctly so maybe that is the problem. I say that b/c the instructions that came with the drive say "connect per the manual for your sound card"....of course I don't have a manual for my sound card!!! Either that or maybe I have to set something on the PC to "let the sound card know" what is going on with the "Aux In"???

So here is how it is connected
(it powers up and burns CD's no problem - just no sound output)
The DVD drive is connected to one of the EIDE "ports" on the motherboard. I connected the CDR drive to the other one next to it. The DVD drive audio cable is connected to the "CD In" on the sound card. The CDR is connected to the "AUX In" of the sound card.

The sound card is a "Sound Blaster CT4830".

Please help me if you can. Thanks.

 

[Budman]

Did you up the volume on the AUX in on the creative mixer ?

 

[LubeDog]

aha! Thanks!

I did that....and it works....I never use the creative mixer I guess that is why I never noticed. Is there anyway to configure it so that I don't have to select whether I want the sound from the Aux or the CD? Such as "daisy chaining" the connections so that both play through the CD Input?

Thanks again...I figured it was something stupid.

 

[NuovoTech]

Not sure I would connect both CDRW/DVD audio outputs to your soundcard's "CD in"...you could get "feedback" thru either cable that may damage one of the drives. IE audio-out jack is not meant 2 receive back another drives signal. Most prefer to use "parallel outputs" to CD-in & Aux-in on soundcard...this gives no problems.

 

[HoopDogg]

some sound cards like my MX300 have 2 cd ins, cd in and aux

so you can have a dvd and burner or dvd and cd rom for music