On Thu, Feb 27, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dear Michael,
Your CD drive should have a volume control and a headphone jack on the front. Put your headphones on, plug them into the CD drive, put a known good audio CD in the drive. By design all computer CD drives will play the CD tracks to the headphone jack upon insertion with out ANY connection to a computer ( besides POWER of course ). Do this and let us know what happened.
Good Luck ......... PeterB
p.s. be sure to use a 'real' retail music CD since some CD writers burn non-standard copies
Good tip, I didn't know that. When I insert a commercial audio CD, and press the button on the CD tray which looks like a "play" button, it plays to headphones fine. This approach _also_ works with my problem CD. This CD was indeed burned "custom" (SoundForge), but works fine under my 7.1 workstation. So I trust this proves it is not a defective CD drive. Next step? (thanks much for the persistant help) Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael@visv.net Recompile and be happy.