First post, by Deksor
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- l33t
Hello !
Today I had this crazy idea : trying to get 100% compatibility with a core 2 duo motherboard with Windows 98SE.
The board I'm using here is a Gigabyte GA-VM900M and have been found few years ago in the scrap, but it works ok. It has all the features you'd expect from a 2007 motherboard (Socket 775, SATA 2, IDE, Floppy, PCI, PCI-E, DDR2 Memory ...) but its chipset is kinda special ...
It's a VIA P4M900 ! Apparently it was even used on socket 478 motherboards x)
After many hours of research, I managed to set everything up (chipset, bridges, usb, integrated video and even network !) ... except for the sound ... the sound is integrated as well and is done with Azalia HDA. For that, all I can find are Windows 2000 drivers ...
But wait ! These are WDM drivers, isn't there some way to try to force them to windows 98 ? If so, how can I do that ? or is there any third party drivers ?
I know, I could just install a PCI card to get sound, but this isn't my goal. But this is an experiment, my goal is not to "just" get sound, it's to get the entire motherboard 100% functionnal under Windows 98SE, and the sound is the only remaining step to reach that x)
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