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I have a liteon writer and a BTC dvd drive in my PC and niether of them will give audio to my Headphones from the Headphone socket on the front of these drives, am i likely to have two faulty drives?
I have checked the Headphones on my Son's PC and they work fine on his DVD Drive.
Any Idea's
Thank's
Sgt.Colon
22-01-2003, 11:46 PM
I know it's like a really dumb question, but have you tried altering the volume slider on the drives?
yes I tried that :(
No its not a dumb question, its surprising what people forget to do some times.
I wouldn't have thought you'd have 2 faulty drives that would be just plain unlucky, I would take the case off and have a look at the socket connections more likely the problems a loose wire or something.
Sgt.Colon
23-01-2003, 5:36 PM
Do the headphones work if they are plugged into the sound card?
timothyw
23-01-2003, 6:09 PM
How're you playing the cd's? Its more likely than anything else that you are using a player that is reading the cd's data itself in a digital manner, rather than making the drive play the cd itself. Windows Media player would be and example of this. You can change this in the menu settings somewhere. In media player 9, go to options, devices, then properties for compact disc drives. Switch playback to analogue. That should fix it, assuming this is the problem you are having.
Edit: If you go to start menu-> run, then type 'cdplayer' a player that plays in this manner should pop up, depending on your version of windows.
Originally posted by Sgt.Colon
Do the headphones work if they are plugged into the sound card?
Just tested my phones and they do work directly from the sound card.
timothyw
I just changed the Media player settings from Digital to analogue and its still the same for both drives.
I think I will just purchase a splitter to plug into my sound card, i can then have my pc speakers and Headphone's plugged in at the same time.
Thanks for all the help.