On Sunday 30 September 2001 01:37 pm, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hmm, it seems to find no isa pnp board... that's quite strange... Maybe the > card is really attached to PCI; please try to find out about that by > looking at the properties of the sound devices once more... at least at my > win2000 box the dialog tells me three lines of information for the device: > device type, manufacturer and location of the device; the third line could > contain something interesting. I
Windows 98SE has device type, manufacturer and hardware verison. It says not available in hardware version :( f you find out nothing that way... could > you open your PC or is there a guarantee seal on it which prevents you from > opening? If you are able to take a look into it, you can see what kind of > sound card is in there: > > -If the sound output connector is on the mainboard, it's a on board card. > -If the card behind the output connector is in a black slot, it's an ISA > card. > -If it's in a white slot, it's a PCI card. > -When was your machine built? My computer is a Compaq Presario 5280 probably made in 1998 I look in the computer when I get the change In view by connection type under device manager ES1869 Control Interface and ES1869 Plug and Play Audio Drive are listed under Plug and Play BIOS. Also under PCI bus I have a Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode) and in that I have a IO read data port for ISA Plug and Play enumerator Is this signifcant? > I think we won't get any further by this isapnp stuff, but if we won't get > it to work, you can still try out another kind of sound driver, alsa. But > let's still try with this normal solution for some time as alsa may be a > little difficult to install. > > Cheers, > > Stephan Steven
