onboard sound and graphics

[krank]

I"m trying to rehabilitate a neighbor's Conpuage Pentium III which crashed on Win me. Installed Win 98se after format and it works fine but no sound and I'm not sure about onboard graphics. As the monitor I plugged in (a Digiview HR-1434) wouldn't go to 256 colors/1024x768 I took a Trident PCI from my old computer and it now works. The motherboard is a Pcchips M754lmr and of course the installation CD is missing. I got some drivers on line but still there are problems. I disabled onboard sound and installed a new modem. Thinking I'll just install new graphics and sound PCI cards if I can get them cheap unless anybody out there has the CD or drivers. Any suggestions?

[avx]

why not just contact the board maker and tell them you need a new CD, they shouldnt give you any problems.

[krank]

Contacted board maker. No reply. Any other ideas?

[GaryRouth]

If your neighbor was happy with the graphics and sound under WinME, they should be just as happy with the same under Win98: shouldn't be any difference in performance or quality. The onboard shared memory graphics from the SiS chipset is probably just as good or better than a Trident card.

Try the whole thing again: this time install the drivers from http://www.pcchips.com.tw/driver/dri...odule_id=1,5,7 . . . just use all the 754lmr Win98 drivers (scroll down the list).

If that pc has a recovery disk, that will do the same, and WinMe should be operational - as long as the problem was in configuration.

If some of the hardware is going south, no OS change is going to fix that. You can download and run diagnostics for the hardware, just in case. Go the website of the hard drive's manufacturer for the download (they are free: DataLifeGuard for WDs, SeaTools for Seagates, Powermax for Maxtors, etc). You can test the memory with something like DocMemory (http://www.simmtester.com)

Best of luck
. . . Gary