[CTS] Re: m/board drivers woes
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:20:49 -0500
Actually the better sound processors are the ones built on-board and knowing
what type/which model you have on a board with no CD attached is a bit
tricky, especially now with heat sinks glued to the chips.
Best bet is to first try to get a manual online for the motherboard and then
see if you can locate drivers through the motherboard maker, despite the
fact that the onboard sound is made by someone else. ESS, Crystal, Yamaha,
SB and a few other name brands are easy enough on-board sound processors to
get drivers for.
You may have the sound card properly installed that you are are of but many
of them involve special codecs, hardware drivers, etc so some might involve
up to 8 different devices within the windows device manager.
-----Original Message-----
From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of DC Rudd
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 5:09 PM
To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CTS] Re: m/board drivers woes
\\get a card, on board SUCKS!
Mark C <finnz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>Hal, thanks for your help on installing this mainboard.
>The drivers installed fine but I'm now getting a 'New hardware found'
message:
>
>PCI Multimedia Audio Device
>
>each time the computer starts although there's no PCI cards installed & as
>far as I know the onboard audio is properly installed.
>What's likely to be causing this message?
>Regards, Mark
>
>At 15:48 17/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:19:31PM +0100, Mark C duly noted:
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi, I'm trying to install a Gigabyte GA-6WMM7 mainboard.
>> >It works fine but I can't install the drivers which I've downloaded from
>> >the Gigabyte site as I bought it without the drivers CD. It's running a
>> >Pentium 3 500 MHz with 512 Mb Crucial memory.
>> >The Gigabyte site has a number of drivers for this m/board:
>> >
>> > Intel security driver
>> > Intel INF installation Utility
>> > Intel IDE driver
>> > YAMAHA 744 sound driver
>> > Intel 81x VGA driver
>> >
>> >So do I need to install all of these and is there any order in which to
>> >install them?
>>
>>No. Don't install the IDE driver unless you have an Ultra ATA controller
on
>>the board. At least this is the way Asus does it, and although I haven't
>>used Gigabyte for some time I think it's the same.
>>
>> >When W98 starts a 'new h/ware found' window pops up for an 'Intel
Firmware
>> >Hub' - what's this?
>> >W98 doesn't find any suitable driver for this h/ware when I direct it to
>> >the folder that I've unzipped the drivers into. Then when I run the
Intel
>> >INF driver it runs thru' a lot of stuff & then displays an 'Information
>> >Window':
>> >
>> >'The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility requires a supported
>> >platform running on a supported Operating System. Check system
requirements
>> >in Readme.'
>>--------end quoted text----------
>>
>>You need to find and install the chipset drivers because Win98 does not
>>inherently support this board. What you need is the inf motherboard
drivers
>>and it sounds like you just have the install utility. Once the MB drivers
>>are installed that should take care of your other problems.
>>
>>--
>>Hal Brown
>>mailto: hal@xxxxxxxx
>>http://adwt.com
>
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