Making a CD-ROM into a stand-alone CD player...HELP!

[YukisMyName]

I saw a guy do this at a store. He has a power supply connected to his CD-ROM drive...just those 2 units...and had it playing an audio CD. I have a spare CD-ROM drive at home and thought I could put it somewhere in the house. I have the power supply and the drive connected but the problem is getting the power supply to power up. Is there a way to manually get the power to start up without the motherboard?

 

[tweakmm]

well... its going to be really impractical, but you need to have your audio out on your CD-Rom spliced to RCA cables and then you would hook it to a stereo

 

[BlackAspic]

Yeah, you can power on without a motherboard really easily. All you need to do is connect 2 pins on the ATX connector with some wire and voila. http://www.virtual-hideout.net/guides/atx_psu_mods/index.shtml for more info.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

<< well... its going to be really impractical, but you need to have your audio out on your CD-Rom spliced to RCA cables and then you would hook it to a stereo >>



Most cd-rom drives have a headphone jack on the front that allows you to hook up a 3.5mm cable to it? So you could always get a converter that is 3.5mm -> RCA and hook it up to your home theater.

But you would need a special powersupply to hook it up to an outlet? Or do you plan on using your computer power supply?

 

[Gunbuster]

It also helps if the CDROM has a Play/track advance button on the front

 

[Kenji4861]

Good Luck!

 

[randomlinh]

wouldn't an AT power supply work? Altho, for all the trouble, i'd just get a standalone cd player

 

[Jonny]

A car battery charger would even work, you could hook it up in your car then! A really cheap car stereo...yeah!!

hehehe

 

[Jerboy]

<< I saw a guy do this at a store. He has a power supply connected to his CD-ROM drive...just those 2 units...and had it playing an audio CD. I have a spare CD-ROM drive at home and thought I could put it somewhere in the house. I have the power supply and the drive connected but the problem is getting the power supply to power up. Is there a way to manually get the power to start up without the motherboard? >>




You can run it off from any 12V supply and you can get 5V by using LM7805 regulator IC(buck or two). The only real problem is how to control the CD player.

 

[Joony]

the new cd drives have "next track" and "play" button on em. and the volume control too.

 

[Jerboy]

<< the new cd drives have "next track" and "play" button on em. and the volume control too. >>



And THATS all you can do. You can't jump to previous tracks, pause, or stop. No display either.

 

[TheKidd]

I'm sure you could do it, but why? Stand alone CD players are cheap and are far more convenient to use.

 

[Killbat]

Plus CDROM DACs sound awful.

 

[hans007]

the company my dad works for used to make a ide cdrom back in the 16x cdrom days, that had reverse forward and play and stop . 4 buttons on front. but it costs like and extra buck to put 4 buttons on there, so they stopped. with a portable cd player costing like $20 in stores, i'd just buy one of those