I do have a cable on both the regular CD rom and the RW cd rom going to mutha board......I do have a slight problem with sound on my laptop though....the cd player program works perfect....BUT if I right click on the cdrom icon on desktop, there is a choice to "play a music cd" and it brings up a cool looking X MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM player! But the music is stuttering badly....how do i fix that? Any ideas? Music plays perfectly in th regular CD PLAYER program tho.....