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dvd cd rom speaker cable
I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD
RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. |
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There should be no need fo buying that cable (altough its cheap).
If you enable Analog audio output, data would run over that cable directly to SoundCard (with no software interference - lesser usega of IDE cable, maybe lower CPU usage, but no chance of software mixing, quality ripping...). So enable Digital output (/disable Analog), as you have done, and everything will work fine. Zdenek Sojka "Eric" píše v diskusním příspěvku news:sGdtd.137752$SW3.102614@fed1read01... I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. |
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I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. With Windows/Linux, its not necessary at all using any of the media players. TBH its become one of those redundant things. I suppose you "may" need it if you've got one of those drives with a "play/stop" button on the front and you wanted to play CDs without firing up an app but how many people do? -- Conor America: A democracy so successful, even the Ukranians copy it. |
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:17:30 -0700, "Eric" wrote:
I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. You only need that cable on older mainboards. Have a nice one... TrentŠ Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed! |
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If you are using XP as your OS then you do NOT have to connect the Audio
cable for your DVD-ROM because the DVD uses its data cable to send the signal in XP. -- DaveW "Eric" wrote in message news:sGdtd.137752$SW3.102614@fed1read01... I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. |
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:38:30 GMT, "DaveW" wrote:
If you are using XP as your OS then you do NOT have to connect the Audio cable for your DVD-ROM because the DVD uses its data cable to send the signal in XP. It has little to do with the OS. Older systems running XP need the audio cable. Its a function of the mainboard. Have a nice one... TrentŠ Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed! |
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Conor wrote:
In article Eric says... I just purchased the parts and built a computer buying two OEM drives (DVD RW w/the works, and a DVD/CD ROM alone). Since they were OEM they didn't come with cables. How necessary is it for me to get speaker cables for the drives? I tried a music cd and a dvd and both played sound. Is there another reason? I am using onboard sound right now so maybe that's why. Thanks. With Windows/Linux, its not necessary at all using any of the media players. TBH its become one of those redundant things. I suppose you "may" need it if you've got one of those drives with a "play/stop" button on the front and you wanted to play CDs without firing up an app but how many people do? I used too. But they seemed to have stopped putting those buttons on modern drives. I suppose there's nothing stopping me putting an old drive in my PC for this purpose. Wouldn't even need to connect the IDE cable :-) -- Paul |
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