My '03 Eclipse aftermarket stereo wont put out any audio. Any help or suggestions?

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I took out the stock stereo and replaced it w/ a Alpine CDE-102 today and bought the correct harness and kit. I attached all the corresponding audio cables to their match as well as every other connection match possible.
I (reconnected the battery) turned on the car, and display worked!, found radio stations, played my cd, all the knobs worked, etc. but it wouldnt put out audio (sounds).
There ARE a few cords leading from the eclipse TO the (new and old) stereo that do not have a connection. BUT, none of these wires are for the speakers or power (as far as I know). And like I said, the harness hooked up well and that is where it color coordinated my speaker hook ups, and I did that perfectly.
Soo Im not sure where to go from here or what to do.
Cuz as I said, there are some cables that go from my car to the new stereo that dont have any place to connect them.
So what can i do!?

~Thanks!
 
Take a look under the passenger seat.

Do you see a box there?

If so, then you have a factory amplifier. The audio signal goes from the factory head unit to the amp through a DIN cable. There are wire harness adapters available that let you integrate the amp by connecting the DIN cable to your head unit's RCA outputs. There are no speaker wires in the factory radio plug (there may be wires in the plug, but they don't connect to anything).

Otherwise, you can bypass the amp; but I don't recommend that unless you're replacing the speakers.
 
Take a look under the passenger seat.

Do you see a box there?

If so, then you have a factory amplifier. The audio signal goes from the factory head unit to the amp through a DIN cable. There are wire harness adapters available that let you integrate the amp by connecting the DIN cable to your head unit's RCA outputs. There are no speaker wires in the factory radio plug (there may be wires in the plug, but they don't connect to anything).

Otherwise, you can bypass the amp; but I don't recommend that unless you're replacing the speakers.
 
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