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evomk8 · Visitor Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Thank you for the help.

Well, I pretty much tried it all. It looks like the embedded audio is indeed the problem Brick wall

A buddy of mine is getting rid of his old computer and he has an old soundcard in there. Would installing that card work? Or would an external CD-Rom drive solve the problem?

Thanks again.
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Kaminari · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:10 am Post subject:

Installing a sound card could help, providing that you can disable your embedded audio chip (probably via a setting located in your BIOS control panel).

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

I also hate to resurrect an old thread, but I have the same problem. I've tried everything above. It worked fine on the same system with 98, but when I upgraded to XP, the problem started with Dracula X. I haven't tried the image thing yet, I'll do that when I get home.

I have the audio plugged directly into my sound card, an SBLIVE card. Not onboard sound. I've tried everything. I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem.

My log shows no problems, the disc under explorer shows the disc is multi-mode, has one track, 44 bytes big. No cd audio when I try to play the cd with media player. But when I go under disc info under nero it shows all tracks are there. Something tells me XP doesn't like PC Engine CDs. Sad

The cd tracks simply don't play. The drive light goes on for an instant during the beginning of the track, but then stops. No cd activity after that.

I've tried 4 different drives. A sony 16x burner, an lg 4x dvd rom, a sony 40x cd rom, and a panasonic 8x dvd burner. So it's not the drive, not the audio cable. Probably some stupid setting somewhere in Windows XP.

So, any ideas yet?

I'm making a walkthrough for Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, and playing the game over and over without CD audio is making the process grueling and not as fun as it should be. Humming the tunes just doesn't cut it. Wink

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

I know this will sound stupid... but try windows 2000. It has all the stability of XP, none of the stupid candy crap.
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elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

As a personal preference, Windows 2000 just isn't my style. My friends are obsessed with 2000, and I don't get it. I'll stick with XP, I actually like the sleeker look of it.

cac · Member Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

why dont you just get damon tools and make a virtual drive and the sound works that way dunno why but it does na di got xp cya

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

I tried making a virtual drive with Alcohol, and it didn't work (still no cd audio). I'll try daemon tools next (that is, when I have the time).

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

Could it be a bad burn?
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elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

Nope, a good burn. I played using the same disc flawlessly in Win98. Then I upgraded my puter (and OS), and that's when the problem started happening.

monowise · Visitor Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I don't know if I missed something but I just want to let you guys know that Dracula X works well with CD audio on my office PC, although I share the described problem on my PC at home. However, they both run Win XP. Don't know why this difference results from though...