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re: I can't get sound from my pcmcia cd drive
Monday, August 15, 2005 at 12:47 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by woolly
(15 messages posted)
Hi, Jerry,
Your patience is astounding! I have checked the two things you suggested - the cd
rom driver was fine and also the second PCMCIA slot is empty. The only ! in yellow
is for a standard serial mouse.
What puzzles me, I don't know if I made this crystal clear at the start, is that
CDRoms have sound, but not audio cds. Why should one play through the pc speaker
and not the other? As I said at the start, if I attach speakers to the cdrom drive
jack I can hear sound from audio cds. Somewhere in the back of my mind I wonder if
it might be to do with the fact that I once had a flipdisk portable hard drive with
a 'jukebox' on it that I used to play my cds. If i right click on the cd drive icon
in my computer when an audio disk is loaded to launch it that way, it tells me that
it can't find the programme to play the disk and I need to specify the file to play
it. But when I try to do that it tells me that cd audio is associated with the mmjb
(Music Match Jukebox) programme, which I don't have any more. Could this be the problem?
I can open the windows cd player and see the audio cd playing, but as I said there
is no sound.
I am sure this is all irrelevant, but I've typed it in anyway so you can discount
it.
Regards as ever,
Woolly
On Sunday, August 14, 2005 at 6:17 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Woolly:
>
>It's really not significant that your WAV files
>play through Windows Media Player instead of SOUND
>RECORDER -- that's just how the file extensions
>are associated with WMD instead of SOUND RECORDER.
>
>What IS significant is that your HEARD the sound
>playing, which means the problem is NOT the
>speakers, so I suspect buying new outboard
>speakers wouldn't solve the problem of the CDROM's
>not playing.
>
>It also means the SOUND CARD drivers are all
>properly installed and working, or you wouldn't
>have the WAV file at all.
>
>Let's look at something else --
>RIGHT-CLICK on the MY COMPUTER icon on the
>DESKTOP, then select PROPERTIES, then DEVICE
>MANAGER. Scroll through the list that opens, and
>see if there are any yellow "?" or "!" anywhere.
>
>Somewhere you should see some evidence of the
>driver for the PCMCIA card for the CDROM. It
>won't be the "PCIC or compatible PCMCIA
>controller" entry under "PCMCIA socket." There
>should be another entry somewhere that
>specifically shows that CDROM card.
>
>Also, check
>START -> SETTINGS -> CONTROL PANEL
>Double-click on PC CARD
>and see if the CDROM card is shown in one of the
>sockets. If you have more than one socket, the
>second one should be EMPTY. If it isn't empty,
>shut down and unplug the second device, and
>reboot. I've had trouble with two devices
>installed before.
>
>Jerry
>
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