What Cables needed? DVD ROM

[newuser]

I want to buy this DVD, can only get the OEM, what cables will I need to hook this up?
Lite-On DVD
Do I need just an IDE cable?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: newuser
I want to buy this DVD, can only get the OEM, what cables will I need to hook this up?
Lite-On DVD
Do I need just an IDE cable?

IDE and a sound cable to plug the drive into your sound card.

 

[Lord Evermore]

You don't need an audio cable if you use WindowsXP. It does everything digitally over the IDE bus.

 

[filmmaker]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
You don't need an audio cable if you use WindowsXP. It does everything digitally over the IDE bus.

Really? I didn't know that.

 

[newuser]

It will be windows xp home and the onboard sound of the 8rda+. So, I will NOT need an audio cable?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Right. WindowsXP uses digital extraction for all audio tasks. Previous versions required either the audio cable (digital or analog), or specific software might have had a decoder/driver that performed digital extraction. You can disable digital audio in XP in order to use either the digital or analog cable, if you feel your soundcard can do it better (no requirement for processing through the CPU, and it doesn't pass over the PCI bus) but for most people digital audio is fine.

 

[stevewm]

Actually Windows 98SE, Windows Me and Windows 2000 will all do DAE to play audio CDs. It is just not enabled by default on these OSes. In 98/Me the setting is located in the Sound Control panel, in 2k its on the Property page for your CD-ROM drive

 

[AMCRambler]

I didn't know that either. Thanks Evermore, good one.

 

[newuser]

Thanks for the info.
While I'm posting. I am going to do a fresh install of windows xp (on cd, duh!) on my new system. If I buy the OEM version of the DVD-CD it will not come with the driver software, correct? How do I go about installing the DVD-CD drivers on my c: before I can run the windows install CD?

 

[Lord Evermore]

There are no "drivers" for a DVD player other than normal CDROM drivers. In Windows it will show up as a DVD drive, but will operate like any CD drive (as well as being able to read DVDs). Actual viewing of DVDs however requires DVD software, which usually comes with a retail drive in a stripped down version. You'll have to buy it separately if you want to watch movies with it on an OEM drive.

 

[newuser]

yeah, so will I have to save any drivers on the C: (blank) before I can run the XP install CD-ROM.
sorry for all the n00b questions

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: newuser
yeah, so will I have to save any drivers on the C: (blank) before I can run the XP install CD-ROM.
sorry for all the n00b questions

Please read the post directly above yours, n00b.

Drivers are not needed.

- M4H

 

[Lord Evermore]

Heh. I think maybe he misinterpreted my mention of the "normal CDROM drivers". The drivers loaded with the WinXP boot CD will run a DVD player just fine, as would any regular Win9x startup disc or any other disc with CD drivers loaded. And WinXP has native CDROM drivers that will run the DVD drive once you get past the Setup process, and it will read individual files on a DVD. The only thing XP won't do natively is actually play DVD's.

 

[andyfasthands]

I thought you needed the audio cable to use the headphone jack. But i dont think that lite-on model even has a headphone jack...opted for cleaner design

 

[Lord Evermore]

The headphone jack on a CDROM doesn't pass the audio to the sound card at all. The CDROM itself just plays an audio CD directly through it, just like if it sent an analog signal over the cable to the sound card.