on-board sound internal conection question

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi all.

I have a machine here which has on-board sound. There is only one internal
audio connector on the motherboard, for connecting the audio cable
from a cd-rom drive. 

A couple of days ago, I got a card that requires an internal connection
in order for one to hear the audio produced by the card. Since I only
have one internal audio connector on my motherboard, I want to unplug
the audio cable from the cd-rom drive, and plug in the new card's
audio cable to where the cd-rom drive's cable was plugged in.

My question is, if anyone knows if it's ok to use these internal audio
connectors for things other then cd-rom drives? The audio that I'm
getting from the new card now is very faint and quiet, and I want to
eliminate incorrect use of the on-board audio connector, before I start to
investigate possible issues with the new card itself. One theory that
I came up with for the quiet audio is that the sound produced by cd-rom
drives maybe very strong, so it doesn't need to be amplified, whereas
the sound produced by the card may not be as strong as that produced
by the cd-rom drive, which would mean that the card would have to be
plugged into one of the other internal audio connectors on a standard
sound card. Does anyone know if this theory is in fact correct or not?
Is the volume going out from a cd-rom drive to the sound card louder
then volume produced by other cards that could have their audio
outputs internally attached to a sound card?

I'm probably not phrasing this question very well, but I hope what I'm
asking will make sense to those in the know. As to why I can't simply
put in a regular sound card with more internal audio connectors, and
disable the on-board sound, the answer is that I'm out of pci/isa
slots, and don't want to permanently pull out any of the cards I have
in the machine now.

Thanks in advance.

Greg


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