The cd-rom headphone jack does not put out any sound for my computer training cd. The speaker jack puts out sound, so the cd is not the problem. The cd-rom playes music cd's through the headphone jack.
The cd to sound board connector was missing, so I installed one.
Still no sound through the headphones for my training cd.
What's wrong here?

Probably something in the sound setup for the training CD failing that..

Check in the sound settings of Windows/OS and see if the volume is up high enough.

I know on my sound card that it has a volume control that you change when you put headphones in, so could be worth checking,,,,,bottom right by the time in Windows....

Also the CD Audio cable needs to be connected to the motherboard, I assume thats what you meant by "The cd to sound board connector" but just incase its useually grey and comes from the bback of the CDROM to the Motherboard.

Pid :D

Your training cd is recorded as a Data cd.
your Music cd is recorded as a music cd format.


When you play a music cd the drive doesn't have to do much with the files. Just read and forward them to the out put.(head Phone and system)

The Training cd is recorded in a data format and Must be transfered to and then decoded by the computer Then passed to the sound card and played.

Rick is correct.
Your computer trainind cd is a data cd so the audio in it can't be decoded by the cd-rom drive.
Audio in Music CD's can be processed by CD-ROM drive without the help of soundcard.
Audio in Data CD's cannot be processed by CD-ROM drive, soundcard is needed for the job.

Nothing is wrong with your Soundcard and/or CD-ROM drive.

Well, for some reason, if you need to use headphone, you can pull the speaker jack out from the sound card and put the headphone jack instead and use your headphone.
Most of the speakers have output hole for headphones, u can can use it as well.
Hope this helps.

If you want to listen with the head phones plugged into the drive, you have to push the play/advance track button on the front of the drive. This will also play over your PC speakers if the drive audio cable is attached to your sound card.

Some drives don't have the button. In those cases you need a software CD player to play a CD directly (to earphones or sound card) without using CPU resources.

Windows has a CD Player to pick the tracks and play the CD through the earphones and speakers. It's called CDplayer.exe and it's found in the Windows directory of Windows98. This program allows you to start play, pick tracks, stop, etc. Once the CD starts to play, there is no further software involvement - it's played directly.

Media Player will also play the CD, but not directly, so you won't hear it through the CD headphone jack.

If you can play music through the headphones, but not your training CD, it means that the sound on the training CD is in the wrong format to be played directly. Music on CD is in 'CD audio' format.

Or, it could just be that the volume control for the type of audio files on your training CD is off or turned way down. Again, check your audio settings.

Budfred