This is the board in the PC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-Motherboard-MS-6 … d/dp/B00GGFUYYU

MSI MS-6506

darkomen What are the system specs and year? That era PB was manufactured by by NEC Europe.

Pentium 4 1.5Ghz (Willamete), 256 MB SD RAM, ATI Radeon 7000 32MB AGP, 20GB HDD.

I believe it's a 2000 model, maybe 2001? Not confirmed however.

Pretty sure it's a AC 97 type chip of some sort. Trying some random drivers as we speak. I doubt this onboard sound will work well with DOS though? So i might just get a Sound Blaster Live! for it.

I won a couple of PB bundle in our local online autcion site TradeMe with that style tower in a different color and a later PB Midia with a cracked case but faster P4 in it. Really ugly curved white thing it was . Transferred the newer mobo to the older tower case. Tossed the ugly cracked case. Both came with the original CDs, software and lots of nice peripherals. Cost $nz40 and the sellers delivered to our place from a town about 70kms away. The older couple came over to do some shopping as we have a better selection of stuff in my city. I'll have a look out on the shed when it gets lighter(05:32 here in New Zealand) and see what is there.

That's awesome! Thanks for offering i really appreciate it however I've thankfully found a working driver.

Vogons helped me it was the first driver i tried. For anyone it might help in future this was what i used: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1319&menustate=0

The speakers on the monitor sound fantastic! I'm surprised and I also noticed it installed SB emulation! I'm yet to try anything DOS related but it's nice to know it's there.

The ATI 7000 in it does a great job too (thanks again Vogons archives for the driver.) I might keep it original and leave the FX 5200 i ordered out of it as this card should be fine for anything 9x. It runs UT99 perfectly, i forgot how good CRT's look... silky smooth!

Really happy, again thanks for the offer. Great community we have here.

The community is great alright. The best x86 related site I've ever come across.

Here's the bundle that came with the 2002 iMedia.

For future reference, this site has a lot of PB stuff on it:
http://uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/discovery.htm

Audio: SigmaTel technologies SigmaTel STAC9756T audio codec

Best info is the translation from PB internal code names ("Discovery" in this case) to regular brand+model names. That helps getting disparate info together.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-01-08, 17:01:

The community is great alright. The best x86 related site I've ever come across.

I fully second this statement. I'm very glad I found VOGONS I've had a blast with this site and with everyone here these past few years

Does anyone have the driver for SigmaTel technologies SigmaTel STAC9756T audio codec ?? I think my current driver is causing issues but im not 100% sure. Would be great to install the correct driver.

darkomen wrote on 2021-01-11, 21:38:

Does anyone have the driver for SigmaTel technologies SigmaTel STAC9756T audio codec ?? I think my current driver is causing issues but im not 100% sure. Would be great to install the correct driver.

Not 100% sure it will work, but here's the driver from an Intel OEM board with the same i845 chipset and a Sigmatel STAC97xx codec:
https://drv.oemdrivers.com/sound-ac97/5.10.36 … 6.certified.exe

I checked the file and it's a proper driver, not some nasty spyware installer.

thanks