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gecko wrote in
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As I indicated in my earlier posts, I mistakenly bought a SATA DVD
burner drive instead of a PATA drive. Anyway, I had to buy some
cables to hook it up. It is now working.

But I now have two more questions:

1) At the beginning of boot I see a new message I never saw before -
Press TAB key into user window.
I ignored it and there seemed to be no effect.
I tried the tab key and nothing happened - it was if I ignored
it.
So, I am wondering what this is all about.

2) I am surprised to see there is no connection to connect my
speakers (via mobo) up to the drive.

Typically a four conductor cable that carries the analog audio signal
from a CD/DVD player or burner to the MOBO audio in connector. I am
very surprised that your MOBO has no such connector.

I think its the drive that is missing the connector!

I would prefer to have an analog audio output connector on a DVD drive so I
could choose eithier digital or analog signal.

I have one drive a circa '02 CD burner that when set to digital playback
stutters. This stutter sounds like static. Switching from digital to
analog playback in the properties of Windows Media Player 9 fixed the
problem.

I recently built two identical PCs both with Sony AW-Q170A DVD burners
and right now I'm switching between digital and analog playback. I'd
have to say that I can't tell any difference. This is the first time
I've tried this with these drives so I'll have to do more listening
(with headphones).

Just to double check that WMP9 wasn't lying about the input I went into
Volume Control and muted the CD player. Now when I switch from digtal to
analog playback the sound is muted.

I also note that WMP9 has an option to choose either digital or analog
for copying. This seem superfluous since AFAIK any software for ripping
audio tracks from music CDs would only use the data from the drive data
cable and ignore the audio output from the drive's analog output. Go
figure???

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