Where is my DVD player? Or better yet, how do I start a CD?

This is a question I do not wish to ask as I do not wish to admit my lack of memory due to a combination of specific medications and as all who follow me know, I have been using Windows and Office and heavily constructed PCs with all that was available at the time of construct. I am having sound issues having downloaded and installed FXSound and, no sound. I should clarify that my system is a desktop with a tower CPU. While working on this issue of no sound with this new system in the PC, I decided that if I could put a CD into the player and turn it on and allow to run while I went forward trying various tactics according to FXSound directions, I could then get the sound I am looking for. So I opened the CD player, you know, that place where the elderly lady thought was a coffee holder, placed a CD into it and closed it. Now I bought this system in 2016 and have never once used the CD/DVD player because I have a rather nicely constructed sound system employing studio monitors rather than loud speakers. Many folks do not realize that even the most sophisticated speakers are merely loud speakers. Thus I decided rather than using loud speakers I would rather have studio monitors which are commonly found in sound studios and deliver much better sound. Thus, seldom do I use the CD/DVD player in my PC, obviously since I do not even know how to begin play on this particular one because with previous systems all I had to do was place the CD/DVD disks in the player and close it and it automatically immediately began playing. Not so with this system, so . . . ? I am sure someone will ask, "if you never use the PC CD/DVD player why download this new sound system"? I want to allow my wife to be able at certain times to watch whatever she wishes (chick movies) that I do not care to watch and thought I could download this new sound system and use the headphones and crank the volume as I love to do and to date have not blown my hearing out into space.