M U L T I M E D I A

DISC DRAWER

HEADPHONE JACK

BUSY

EMERGENCY

EJECT

AND HEADPHONE LEVEL

INDICATOR

EJECT HOLE

BUTTON

This causes the drive tray to open in order to place a CD into the drive. The other two controls are as shown above, headphone connection and volume control, which are for use whilst playing commercial audio or music CDs. That is if you are not using any external speakers, or feeding the output to your hi-fi system.

Note

You can still use all the other facilities on your computer while you are playing music from your CD drive.

Remember to allow a few seconds to enable the CD to reach full speed before attempting to play the audio tracks or read the data.

You can play audio or music CDs by using the utilities in Windows

95.Check with the Windows 95 HELP under multimedia topics for detailed information

Inside your system, the CD drive audio connection is hard wired directly to the on board sound system, so that the full stereo sound is amplified and controlled by the Soundblaster.

Photo CDs

Photo CDs can hold up to 100 full colour photographs and with appropriate software they can be viewed, edited and then printed out via your computer, or included in your letters and reports. Most reputable camera or photo shops can provide further information on getting your best pictures transferred to CD. There are several

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