Just bought a Pioneer DVD-120 internal DVD-ROM. I’ve hooked it up and it seems to play everything fine. When I tried the headphone jack on the front of the drive. . . nothing. I adjusted the volume, I tried two pair of headphones that worked fine in other things, but no sound is coming out of the headphone jack on the drive itself. I tried playing DVDs and audio CDs. Is there some setting I am missing, or is this just a defect?
Another thing that seemed weird was that it still played audio CDs through my computer’s speakers with the audio cable disconnected. Just the IDE ribbon and the power supply were connected. Is that normal? What is that little audio cable for?
Hmmm. . . Seems like the problem is the “Enable Digital CD Audio for this CD-ROM device” setting in the Multimedia settings in the Control Panel. (I’m running Windows 98) Unfortunately, I put my old CD-ROM back in the computer so I can’t test that theory right now. That would also explain why it played a CD even with the audio cable disconnected.
I took the drive out because it’s intended for the new machine I’m putting together. I put it in this machine just to try it out. “Why not leave it in the old computer until you’re ready to put it in the new one,” you ask. I don’t know. I’ll just chalk it up to my obsessive-compulsive tendencies.