On Tuesday, Joe Makowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
] hi. i got a used computer that has the audio drivers installed
] under windows. if i use audio cd's, they play under dos, but
] no sound comes out. (my the cd rom driver is mscdex and in dos).
] i want to get rid of windows, as my hard drive is only 85 megs.
Did the CD audio sound under Windows? If it didn't/you don't know,
check the *audio* cable between the CD-ROM drive and the soundcard.
There should be 3 cables connected to the drive: power [largeish, 4
separate wires, and big plastic connecter], data [ribbon cable], and
audio [sheilded connected to a 3 or 4 pin connector on bother ends].
The sound comes out here, into a "line-in", gets amplified and then
sent to the speakers.
Quick Check: plug headphones/small speakers into the jack on the front
if possible. If sound comes out, it means that cable behind something
is wrong.
Another possiblilty is the volume of that channel is very low or even
muted. Got a DOS mixer program? I have one from Media Vision if you
want, that could work.
Or perhaps the soundcard wants drivers to even start up. Windoze
takes controll totally and you hardly need any DOS drivers for it.
Good Luck killing Windows, hope there's not too much glass. <g>
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