gecko wrote:
>
> 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. Big surprise. To me
> anyway.

You are thinking of the analog cable that used to go from the CD drive to the sound card.

> So, I am wondering how the sound is conveyed to my speakers.
> Through the SATA connection to the mobo I would guess.

That is correct. In device manager check "Enable digital CD audio"

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Mike Walsh