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Help with sound card

My computer’s pci sound card has an IDE connection on it to hook up my cd rom drive. It’s an older card but still good, a Sound Blaster Pro 2. If I plug in my cd rom drive to the IDE connection on the card, will it still show up in My Computer and allow me to run software from it? or does the card just take audio from it.

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Michael Leibman 4 #
Littleton, CO, US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (21 minutes after post)

In Windows, that connection on the card is meaningless, as far as I know.
Under some other operating systems that connection allows playing CD’s straight from cd to soundcard without going through other motherboard resources.

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Michael Leibman 4 #
Littleton, CO, US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (25 minutes after post)

…(if you’re talking about the tiny little digital connection. If it’s a full-size ide port, I have no clue, sorry.)

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fran.unknownpersonad 0 #
US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (27 minutes after post)

no its a full size IDE port. if u search sound blaster 2 pro in google u might find a diagram of what i mean.

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US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (31 minutes after post)

heres a link to a diagram i found.

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-car…

what im talking about is labeled CN1, CD-ROM interface connector. and on the card it looks exactly like the IDE port found on the motherboards of computers.

Michael Leibman 4 #
Littleton, CO, US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (31 minutes after post)

Well, one thing is that some older computers needed a PCI card with an IDE port on it just to be able to use newer IDE devices (probably CD-Roms particularly, but also the larger hard drives)… so it’s from that era of upgrading and the way to know what happens with it is by experimenting.

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (34 minutes after post)

**** your avatar scared me at 1am here.

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2 months, 3 weeks ago (1 day, 3 hours after post)

if the ide is on the card i doubt windows can see it, that’s’ kinda weird, usually they just add a 3 pin analog cable for sound

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2 months, 3 weeks ago (1 day, 3 hours after post)

**** how old is your motherboard? lol
from the looks of the diagram it actually is an IDE data link, the card also has and analog plug for sound. i seriously doubt early ide systems had enough throughput to carry digital audio anyways. that’s the main reason they add those little audio cables

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