Obviously if you buy a card with a different arrangement from this, then you'd follow the instructions supplied instead. Now to the audio connections. As we pointed out earlier, the arrangement for a drive plus MPEG-2 card is quite different from that which applies to a bare drive. In fact, there are various options depending on your sound card and the MPEG-2 decoder card. If you're keeping your old CD drive or have a CD-RW drive and want to be able to play audio CDs from this drive too, you need a connection from this drive to your sound card.
Some sound cards have a pair of on-board audio input connectors.
If you want to plug in a CD or CD-RW drive too, you can plug this into the sound card's other input. Clearly, since you're installing from the DVD drive, this also gives you the opportunity to check that the DVD drive is working correctly. If not, double-check the power connector and the data connector. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNetUK is prohibited.