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Question posted by info97050 on June 16th, 2011

Motherboard Location For Audio Cable From Cd-rom.

Where on the motherboard do you plug in the sound cable from the cd-rom, 4 wires

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Answer #1: Posted by Anonymous-37192 on August 31st, 2011 7:07 PM

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It is not required on to be plugged in, as audio will play fine via the data cable without it. the motherboard on any modern dell i've encoutered does not have a socket for an optical drive audio connector.

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