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cd/dvd player has no audio
cd dvd player in 8300 plays video but no audio after reformat and installation of xp and all the drivers.
theres no cable connected from the mb to the cd dvd plyer, i thought it was that till i read this:
Microsoft® Windows® Millennium, Windows 2000, and Windows XP operating systems ship with DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) enabled. The analog cable is not be necessary when using DAE.
Earlier versions of Microsoft operating systems or other non-Microsoft operating systems may need the analog Audio cable to play CD audio.
Do I have to enable DAE or something? Can't figure it out.
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Posted March 26th, 2006 11:00
I installed all the drivers from the supplied dell cd, windows sounds work, startng windows, exiting windows etc.167
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Posted March 26th, 2006 13:00
Check the other items as suggested, including the Volume Control panel and the Windows Device Manager.
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Posted March 26th, 2006 11:00
It's not actually "DAE", but they do use "digital audio" via the IDE Ribbon I/O cable. The "use digital audio" must be selected in the Windows Device Manager for the drives (I think this is the default mode, but check).
Are you getting any audio at all? Many times on clean or complete reinstalls people do not install the Dell (motherboard) chipset drivers and if you don't install the chipset drivers you won't be able to install the sound card drivers.
There is also a separate entry in the Volume Control panel for CD audio. Make sure it's not muted and/or that the volume control slider is NOT in the down (off) position.