Can't Get Headphone Jack to Work
This problem applies equally to a CD-ROM, a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM:
I cannot get sound out of the built-in headphone jack on any of these
units. These drives should all have bult-in amps for the 'phones, such
as they are, but nothing is coming out. I've tried disabling digital
playback on all these units, but that didn't work. I even tried a
different set of 'phones, but to no avail.
Any ideas or suggestions? I can't believe that all three of these
units are defective, so *something* must be wrong.
Thanks in advance!
My system:
Gigabyte 8HIXP using onboard sound
P4 2.53 cpu
Antec 400W PSU
768 megs RAMBUS memory
Hercules Prophet III video card
160 gig RAID 0 drive (80 gigs x 2)
WD 120 gig HD
TDK CD-RW
Benq 1648A DVD-ROM
250 meg Zip drive
Kevin Miller
"...snappin' off the trees like they was bonsai'd
ornaments on a dry-water landscape..."
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the same use as the jack on the CD drives - for audio CD output.
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| Let me amend my first message:
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| I now have all three drives playing back audio CDs through the
| headphone jack. However, I still can't get sound through the jack on
| the DVD-ROM when playing a DVD.
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| Kevin Miller
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| "...snappin' off the trees like they was bonsai'd
| ornaments on a dry-water landscape..."
| -- Frank Zappa
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I now have all three drives playing back audio CDs through the
headphone jack. However, I still can't get sound through the jack on
the DVD-ROM when playing a DVD.
Kevin Miller
"...snappin' off the trees like they was bonsai'd
ornaments on a dry-water landscape..."
-- Frank Zappa
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wouldn't be surprised if it goes away in the future - in fact some OEM
drives already don't have them. The drive's audio output is pretty much an
afterthought, and the sound quality is usually pretty bad.
It doesn't add that much to the cost of a CD or DVD drive to have a
headphone jack for CD playback, but adding DVD video or audio playback
capability would significantly increase the complexity and cost of the
drive.
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play music CDs with the headphone jack, though there it is with a volume
control.
Neil
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Thats a pain. And they want people to buy dvd-audio disks in the future?
Hopefully by then they will have fixed this oversight.
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Thanks; that makes sense. I'll just pop by Radio Shack and pick up a
speakers/headphone switchbox.
Kevin Miller
"...snappin' off the trees like they was bonsai'd
ornaments on a dry-water landscape..."
-- Frank Zappa
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