Headphone Port on CD-ROM Drives

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I have headphones plugged into my CD-ROM drive in my Power Computing computer and I cannot hear system sounds. Is this normal?
The headphone port on the front of your CD-ROM drive is designed to only play music from audio CDs. Neither system sounds nor multimedia CDs will play through this port. This is true for all models of CD-ROM drives that Power Computing bundles with its machines.

If you wish to hear system sounds through your headphones, or anything besides the internal speaker, the sound output device must be plugged into the sound out port on the back of your machine.

Machines Affected: All
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012