My Sound is not working...

[katzdvd]

I have gotten lazy in my old age

Say it ain't so!

What other avenues can I explore? what else to do???

[Chewy]

start all over and try again
but this time follow a new set of directions, your method is how I loaded windows 98

[katzdvd]

would be nice to do a clean install with sound card in and a slipstreamed sp2 cd and onboard off in bios

you mean start over & do it like that?

And, what do you think the deal is with ESCD entry missing in the bios?

[Chewy]

how did you flash the bios?

sh!te, another can of worms

download the user manual and check against your bios?

[katzdvd]

how did you flash the bios

Chewy, that was long ago & far away (I know, bad...) I can't remember, other than to say I followed the directions provided at the abit site, & all went well, without any glitches, as I can remember.

download the user manual and check against your bios?

I have the manual that came w/ the board, & the page in it looks just like your screenshot; It clearly shows ESCD as being an entry, but I can guarantee you that when I go into my bios, it does not have it there!

[katzdvd]

Well,
I have given this situation a bit of thought, & considering the (several) issues that I have, (quirky xp install process, bios item missing, etc.)...I think I would rather just try my luck with another mobo.

I looked over AMD's site at the recommended boards for use with my processer(something I should have done first), & they have quite a few listed. Quite a few are still avail., some are not.

Would you fellows mind taking a gander at the link & see if there is one that you would prefer over another?

Athlon XP 3200 400FSB
Remember, I need SATA 3Gb/s.

http://www2.amd.com/us-en/recmobo/ResultsHandler/1,,30_182_869_4348^7923~63674,00.html

Many thanks, katz

[Chewy]

I've tried pricewatch and newegg, nothing

[katzdvd]

I've tried pricewatch and newegg, nothing

Ebay has some refurbs/old stock listed, & last night I found a couple retailers that still had some of those boards listed.
But newegg, tigerdirect, & the bigger retailers, no go.

[Chewy]

my son fried his asrock and his mobile xp cpu is just sitting

I would want an asus myself

might have had a bad bios flash?????

are any of the caps buldging/leaking, my experience with abit?

[katzdvd]

might have had a bad bios flash?????

was thinking that would almost have to be my prob., but I thought a bad flash would leave me with a paperweight - completely dead.

are any of the caps buldging/leaking, my experience with abit?

I looked at the caps a while back, they all looked good. I have a friend who rebuilt a mobo/replaced all the caps once; said it wasn't worth the time/energy he put into it

[doctorhardware]

It is cheaper just to buy another motherboard then to replace all the caps. If you can supply the specs of the flash chip used for the bios I might be able to flash a chip here and send it to you. The only other thing is that the chip must be socketed or it is not worth the effort IMHO.

[Chewy]

well Katz, long ago and far away I had some similar problems and when in doubt I learned to start over from scratch and have saved some decent hardware that way.

I just wish you had bought decent ram, that cas 3 is not what I like to see

here's a quick check list for a good bios flash

damn perfect floppy disk formatted by windows as a startup disk
put the flasher and bin file on it

turn off the computer after setting it to boot to floppy

pull the power plug
wait
optional pull the mobo power connector
wait
short cmos(wait at least 30 seconds)
reconnect everything in reverse order

boot to floppy and enter commands that you wrote down, at the a prompt

after the flash and reboot go into bios immediately and use setup defaults
then tweak by fixing things, memory timings etc, turn off unused crap

[katzdvd]

well Katz, long ago and far away I had some similar problems and when in doubt I learned to start over from scratch and have saved some decent hardware that way.

I can't start over now, if the bios is corrupt can I? Need new chip at that point?

I just wish you had bought decent ram, that cas 3 is not what I like to see

I know, I cheaped out will not do it again; am learning, discovering lots of good things here on the forums since arriving a yr. ago...

Good instructions on the flash, I recorded them for future reference. If memory serves me, I did (mostly) what you stated, Except

after the flash and reboot go into bios immediately and use setup defaults
then tweak by fixing things, memory timings etc, turn off unused crap

That would have been a good step to do, but if Abit didn't reference it in their instructions, I didn't do it.

Thanks so very much, all you guys for the pointers. Now is decision time; I need to decide if I want to fight this board further or go for one that AMD recommends. Unfortunantly, my kv7-v is not on their list.

[Chewy]

sure you can flash as many time as you like

[katzdvd]

sure you can flash as many time as you like

Well then, dang it, I may be tempted to do it again, maybe get lucky on the 2nd time around!