Computer CD player (ROM) mode
 

Hi;

I have Win98SE and have discovered that audio CDs play through the
motherboard. I can unplug the audio cable from the drive and it still
works.

I don't want this, it's an old 400Mhz K6-2 and I want to conserve
resources. Almost all my music plays from MP3s right off of the HD so
I'm not that concerned about the audio quality when playing a CD.

I've looked and looked and I can't seem to find a setting to disable
this function, anyhone know how to do this ? or do I have to use a
crappy old soundcard or CDROM that doesn't support the feature ?
Unfortunately this is not an option, one's a DVD and the burner is a
48X, which surprisingly cranks up to about 29X on data and about 12X on
audio. Crappy old soundcards don't sound so great on MP3s, so I don't
want to screw myself there. If very worse comes to worse should I
consider just buying a cheap CD player ?

Can this be done, and if so how ?

Thanks in advance.

JURB

18 Feb 2005 17:07:22 -0800: (---- ) ----
sci.electronics.repair @
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Hi;

I have Win98SE and have discovered that audio CDs play through the
motherboard. I can unplug the audio cable from the drive and it still
works.

I don't want this, it's an old 400Mhz K6-2 and I want to conserve
resources. Almost all my music plays from MP3s right off of the HD so
I'm not that concerned about the audio quality when playing a CD.

I've looked and looked and I can't seem to find a setting to disable
this function, anyhone know how to do this ? or do I have to use a
crappy old soundcard or CDROM that doesn't support the feature ?
Unfortunately this is not an option, one's a DVD and the burner is a
48X, which surprisingly cranks up to about 29X on data and about 12X on
audio. Crappy old soundcards don't sound so great on MP3s, so I don't
want to screw myself there. If very worse comes to worse should I
consider just buying a cheap CD player ?

Control Panel - Multimedia - look for 'Digital CD playing' or
something like.

From your description, it seems you're playing CD's on Digital mode.

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Hi;

I have Win98SE and have discovered that audio CDs play through the
motherboard. I can unplug the audio cable from the drive and it still
works.

I don't want this, it's an old 400Mhz K6-2 and I want to conserve
resources. Almost all my music plays from MP3s right off of the HD so
I'm not that concerned about the audio quality when playing a CD.

I've looked and looked and I can't seem to find a setting to disable
this function, anyhone know how to do this ? or do I have to use a
crappy old soundcard or CDROM that doesn't support the feature ?
Unfortunately this is not an option, one's a DVD and the burner is a
48X, which surprisingly cranks up to about 29X on data and about 12X on
audio. Crappy old soundcards don't sound so great on MP3s, so I don't
want to screw myself there. If very worse comes to worse should I
consider just buying a cheap CD player ?

Can this be done, and if so how ?

It's the software, as in the operating system.

Time after time, people complain that they don't have sound from
their CDROM when they switch to Linux; "but it worked fine with
Windows". It turns out that the audio cable from the CDROM
drive to the soundcard isn't even installed in many cases, and
nobody notices until they use software that merely uses the IDE
bus to control the drive, not transfer audio CD data.

Since I've never run Windows, I haven't a clue how to fix this,
or even if it can be fixed.

But it has nothing to do with the hardware.

Michael

Control Panel - Multimedia - look for 'Digital CD playing' or
something like.

Believe it or not I found it. However it was already disabled. Go
figure, of course now I do remember doing a scanreg /restore recently.
.. . . . .and I used to have a lot older soundcard.

Thanks, at least now I know where the setting is, I looked all over in
system but it's obviously not there.

Anyway the reason I want to do this is for one, my machine is limited,
but I am using a primary connection to WinMX peer networks and this
uses resources. So much so that it makes MP3s skip, or more aptly put,
stick. After it's running awhile it vecomes quite a hog and even the
mouse locks up. This is about 100 ms, with about 800 ms in between when
I get frustrated enough to reboot. The thing is that the transfers are
happening and these are files I want.

So if I decide to burn a couple of regular audio CDs to play when I'm
DLing, they won't skip (stick that is).

I also overdub myself, usually on the guitar. I figured I'd burn a CD
of at least the percussion track, then I can play "with myself" (no
wise ass remarks please) :-)

Thanks again.

Now ALL I have to do is find an authentication free, region free DVD
ROM that is CD+G compatible. I'm seriously knocking on wood at this
point. I don't yet know that one even exists.

JURB

19 Feb 2005 15:11:23 -0800: (---- ) ----
sci.electronics.repair @
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Control Panel - Multimedia - look for 'Digital CD playing' or
something like.

Believe it or not I found it. However it was already disabled. Go
figure, of course now I do remember doing a scanreg /restore recently.
. . . . .and I used to have a lot older soundcard.

Thanks, at least now I know where the setting is, I looked all over in
system but it's obviously not there.

Anyway the reason I want to do this is for one, my machine is limited,
but I am using a primary connection to WinMX peer networks and this
uses resources. So much so that it makes MP3s skip, or more aptly put,
stick. After it's running awhile it vecomes quite a hog and even the
mouse locks up. This is about 100 ms, with about 800 ms in between when
I get frustrated enough to reboot. The thing is that the transfers are
happening and these are files I want.

Can't you use a secondary connection on WinMX?

Here (233MHz Pentium, 128MB RAM) primary connections on WinMX were a
disaster.

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D-to-A conversion of the audio CD's is minuscule in comparison

I understand that, but it gets to the point where the PC can't do
ANYTHING about 12% of the time. Somehow it's managing to get the files
right

Thing is I got about 2500 songs and a bunch of movies and video clips.
At this point I'm mainly looking for rare, hard to find stuff and once
I get hooked up to somebody that has it I want to stay on as long as
possible.

I do have alot better connection using the primary connection. I just
know that if I want to play MP3s I gotta get off the network, and
actually reboot. It's like MX has a memory leak that gets worse and
worse. Sometimes the mouse locks up completely, but luckily I know how
to use Ctrl+Esc and reboot that way. This usually only happens when I
leave it on the network overnight.

Thanks again.

JURB

wrote:
I understand that, but it gets to the point where the PC can't do
ANYTHING about 12% of the time.

W98SE was famous for memory leaks. MX probably doesn't help the
situation.

You might try this for grins:
http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/index.htm