Creative GCD-R542B - Manual

ix Introduction This User’s Guide provides you with information to install and operate your CD-ROM drive. It also provides you with information to install and use QuickCD, an application that allows you to play audio CDs in DOS and Windows. Before You Begin Before you set up your package, please rea...

x Making a Copy of Your Diskettes If you have not made a copy of the original diskettes, you should do so before installing the software in your system. Store your original diskettes in a safe place. Using this Guide This guide is arranged as follows: Chapter 1 , “Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive” Before y...

xi Appendix B , “Resolving Hardware Conflicts” The base I/O address or IRQ line of the IDE CD-ROM interface card might conflict with the I/O address or IRQ line of other devices. Read this appendix on how to resolve these conflicts by changing your card’s jumpers. Appendix C , “Troubleshooting” If y...

xii Text Conventions The following text elements are used to help you distinguish different types of information presented in this guide: Key Combinations In this guide, the following conventions are used to help you identify different key stroke combinations: Table i: Text conventions used in this ...

xiii Icons In this guide, icons are used to highlight areas of text that require your attention. Table iii:Icons used in this guide. Icon Use Information or instructions that must not be taken lightly and should be noted. Cautions or warnings that you must pay attention to. Information highlighted b...

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-1 1 Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive Your CD-ROM drive is just like a CD player. It allows you to play audio CDs, skip and stop a track, and eject the CD using software application (see Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD”). Furthermore, your drive supports the following features: ❑ Quad ...

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-2 The Drive’s Front Panel This section describes the various controls on your drive’s front panel as shown in Figure 1-1. Stereo Phone Jack The Stereo Phone Jack allows you to connect a pair of earphones to the drive. It also allows you to connect a pair of powered speake...

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-5 Please refrain from using excessive force to open the tray as this may damage your drive. The Drive’s Rear Panel This section provides you with information on the connectors and jumpers found on your drive’s back panel as shown in Figure 1-5. Digital Output Connector Th...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-1 2 Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive This chapter provides you with instructions to set up your CD-ROM drive. These instructions work: ❑ If you have purchased your CD-ROM drive as a stand-alone product or in a multimedia upgrade kit. ❑ If you have purchased your CD-ROM dri...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-2 If you have purchased the drive with an IDE CD-ROM interface card, get the interface card ready (see Figure 2-2). If you have an audio card installed in your system, get a CD audio cable ready (see Figure 2-3). The rest of this chapter shows you how to: ❑ Install You...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-3 Inserting Your Drive into Your System To insert your drive into your system: 1. Switch off your system and all peripheral devices. 2. Touch a metal plate on your system to ground yourself and discharge any static electricity. 3. Remove the cover from your system as i...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-5 6. Insert your CD-ROM drive into the vacant drive bay as shown in Figure 2-6. Do not slide the drive completely into the vacant drive bay. Leave some space at the rear so that it is easier for you to connect cables to your drive. You may need to use some force to ins...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-7 4. If you are connecting your drive to an audio card, connect the CD audio cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in Figure 2-9. Connecting Cables to Your Card After connecting the cables to the CD-ROM’s rear panel, you need to connect these cables to your audio or IDE C...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-11 3. Align the IDE CD-ROM interface card’s gold-stripped connector with the expansion slot and gently lower it into the slot (see Figure 2-15). 4. Secure the interface card to the expansion slot with the screw you removed from the metal plate (see Figure 2-16). Figure...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-15 3. Connect the data cable to your hard disk controller card as shown in Figure 2-21. Make sure you align the colored wire on the cable to Pin 1 of your Hard Disk Data Connector. Your hard disk controller card may differ from the one shown in Figure 2-21. Figure 2-21...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-17 6. Slide the drives back into place and fasten them to your system as shown in Figure 2-23. 7. Switch on your system. 8. Proceed to install the software. Installing the Software The following instructions show you how to install two drivers required to control your ...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-18 The installation program creates a directory to store the accompanying software. The program adds the following statements to your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files respectively: AUTOEXEC.BAT: C:\path\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /M:8 /V CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=C:\path\SBIDE.SYS /D...

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-19 TESTCD does the following: ❑ Checks that the drive is properly set up.If you see a MSCDEX error message, check that SBIDE.SYS is properly installed (see the section “Changing the Driver Settings” in Chapter 4). Also, ensure that the data and power cables are properl...

Using QuickCD 3-1 3 Using QuickCD QuickCD allows you to play audio CDs in DOS and Windows. Like your CD player, QuickCD is easy and fun to operate. This chapter provides you with information on: ❑ Running DOS QuickCD ❑ Running Windows QuickCD If you have not installed the software that comes with yo...

Using QuickCD 3-2 3. At the DOS prompt, type QCD and press <Enter>. The QuickCD screen similar to Figure 3-1 appears. If you have more than one drive, this program allows you to specify the desired drive at the DOS prompt. For example, to play the audio disc from your F drive, type QCD /D:F an...

Using QuickCD 3-4 Quitting DOS QuickCD To quit DOS QuickCD, do one of the following: ❑ Press <Esc>. ❑ Click on the Title box. Running Windows QuickCD Before you can use Windows QuickCD, you need to ❑ Set it up in Windows ❑ Install the MCICDA.DRV driver that comes with your Windows 3.1 package....

Using QuickCD 3-6 2. Double-click the Drivers icon in the Control Panel group window.The Drivers dialog box similar to Figure 3-5 appears. 3. Check that the statement [MCI] CD Audio appears in the Installed Drivers list box. ❑ If the statement [MCI] CD Audio appears in the Drivers dialog box, choose...

Using QuickCD 3-7 6. Choose OK. 7. Restart Windows for the changes to take effect. Starting Windows QuickCD After you set up Windows QuickCD, you can run the program from your Accessories group window. To run Windows QuickCD: 1. Double-click the QuickCD icon in your Accessories group window.The Quic...

Using QuickCD 3-9 Press <Tab> to choose a button.Press <Enter> to start the selected operation.Move the Slider thumb with the left or right arrow key to forward or rewind the current track. Using the Control Menu Box The Control Menu Box (top left corner of the control window) contains c...

Using QuickCD 3-10 Play Plays the current track. Stop Stops the track. Pause Pauses or resumes the track. Skip Selects the next track and plays it.If it is the end of the CD, the first track is played. Always on Top Displays QuickCD on top of the active window. Preferences Allows you to customize Qu...

Using QuickCD 3-11 ❑ Minimize on playMinimizes QuickCD to an icon when playing audio CD. ❑ Stop playback on exitStops an audio CD when you exit QuickCD. 3. Choose OK. Quitting Windows QuickCD To quit Windows QuickCD, do one of the following: ❑ Choose the On/Off button. ❑ Select Close from the Contro...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-1 4 Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive This chapter comprises several sections to help you get more out of your CD-ROM drive. The chapter is organized as follows: ❑ Changing the Driver SettingsThis section describes the parameters of the drivers that control your C...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-3 The descriptions of the parameters are as follows: Parameter Description path Specifies the directory where the driver is stored. /D: device Specifies the name of the CD-ROM drive. This must be identical to the device name specified by the MSCDEX statement in th...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-4 MSCDEX.EXE Settings The syntax of the MSCDEX.EXE statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT is: C:\path\MSCDEX /D:device /M:xx [/L:drive] [/E] /V [ ] in the above statement refers to any optional parameters. After making changes to the statement, please remember to reboot your s...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-5 Running CDSETUP After you have installed your software, you can run CDSETUP to change the base I/O address and IRQ line of your IDE interface. To change the base I/O address and IRQ line of your card, you need to change the jumper setting on your audio or IDE CD...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-6 d1 , d2 , d3 , and d4 refer to the drives you want to lock. For example, to lock the disc trays for drives D, E, and F, type LOCKCD D: E: F: and press <Enter>. Once you have locked the tray, it can only be ejected if you run UNLOCKCD.EXE or restart the sys...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-7 Enabling and Disabling Jumpers A jumper exists in two states: enabled or disabled. A jumper is enabled when a plastic hood called a jumper block is placed over the jumper’s two pins as shown in Figure 4-1. In contrast, a disabled jumper is one in which the jumpe...

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-8 2. Set your drive by placing the jumper blocks on the desired jumper as shown in Figure 4-3. The jumper labeled CS is reserved and should not be used. Figure 4-3: The available ID Jumper settings.

Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive 4-9 Connecting the Drives After you have set your drive as the Master or Slave drive, you can connect it to your existing drive using a daisy-chain cable as shown in Figure 4-4. Make sure that you align the colored wire on the data cable to Pin 1 on your CD-ROM driv...

Technical Data A-1 A Technical Data This appendix provides you with the technical specifications of your drive. Physical Dimensions Height 41.5 mm Width 146.0 mm Depth 189.0 mm Color PC white Performance Characteristics Buffer Memory 256 KB Data Transfer Rate Single Speed 150 KB/sec Quad Speed 600 K...

Technical Data A-2 Power Supply 5 Volts ± 5%12 Volts ± 10% Current Drain 0.35 Amp (Max.) ± 5 Volts0.8 Amp (Max.) ± 12 Volts Typical Audio Performance Frequency Response 20 Hz to 20 kHz ± 3 dB Signal to Noise Ratio 85 dB Total Harmonic Distortion (at 1 kHz) 0.2% (Typical) Channel Separation 70 dB Lin...

Resolving Hardware Conflicts B-1 B Resolving Hardware Conflicts This appendix provides you with information on the hardware settings of the IDE CD-ROM interface card. It shows you how to change the Base I/O address and IRQ line if conflicts occur between the IDE CD-ROM interface card and other devic...

Resolving Hardware Conflicts B-2 Changing Base I/O Address If I/O address conflicts occur between the IDE CD-ROM interface card and other devices, you need to change the base I/O address of the IDE CD-ROM interface card or that of the conflicting device. Change the default base I/O address of the ID...

Resolving Hardware Conflicts B-3 3. Place the jumper block on the interface card to select the desired base I/O address as shown in Figure B-1 . A jumper block is a removable plastic hood that fits over a pair of pins. 4. Run CDSETUP or the installation program to update the setting in your CONFIG.S...

Resolving Hardware Conflicts B-4 Changing IRQ Line Four IRQ Lines are available for your IDE CD-ROM interface card: 10, 11 (factory default setting), 12 and 15. Refer to Table B-2 for the standard IRQ line assigned to the different IDE port. Refer to the section “Changing Base I/O Address” in this c...

Troubleshooting C-1 C Troubleshooting This appendix helps you troubleshoot some common problems you might face. Problems with CD-ROM Drive Problem No sound from speakers. Causes 1. Audio cable is not connected properly or the volume is not adjusted to an audible level. 2. The drive might be faulty. ...

Troubleshooting C-3 Problem I do not know how to specify the settings for the MSCDEX driver when I have two or more CD-ROM drives using different device drivers in my system. For example, I have a Creative IDE and another CD-ROM drive connected to my system. Solution Modify the MSCDEX statement in y...

Glossary D-1 D Glossary CD-ROM/XA CD-ROM Extended Architecture. An extended CD-ROM format developed by Philips, Sony, and Microsoft that allows computer data, compressed audio data, and video/picture data to share a single track. DAT Digital Audio Tape. A magnetic tape storage medium for the digital...

Glossary D-2 Track A logical region of a disc. Each track can contain sound, animation, video, or other computer data.

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