It will load applications and such but won't play music CDs. The on-screen controls work, but no sound comes from the speakers. Technical support told me to reinstall the CD-ROM software. It still didn't work. Turns out your problem is hardware, not software.
Audio CDs are a little different from CD-ROMs.
They look the same, but the sound in CD-ROM applications is specially encoded to be interpreted by your CPU chip and sound card. Your PC can't interpret the data on audio CDs, so the digital tunes bypass the CPU and sound card and head to the speakers to pump out the jams. The bidirectional parallel cable can send information back and forth between devices at that speed to inform you about paper jams and toner and ink levels. All rights reserved.