First post, by kbs1
I have a badass dual Ppro setup with 768MB edo ram. I built the machine from the ground myself. HDD is SCSI 36GB. PCI Matrox G450 VGA. There are 2 SMP compatible celerons 533mhz with Powerleap PL/ProII adapters, all working great. With cache enabler on startup and everything. It's my most interesting retro PC 😀 I've got about 14 of them which I hoarded over the past 3 years (not all ppros, but variety of interesting systems, however I do have an MicronICS W6-Li with dual pentium pros 200mhz - that system is extremely sweet as well).
Now came the time of software installations. I started with this one.
OS is windows XP sp3. However the onboard sound does not seem to work at all. Windows detects "legacy audio drivers" driver present in device manager, but no go. No sound, not even a speaker icon in the bottom right corner. I read that it has "crystal audio", but driver for windows XP does not work. Even windows comes with "crystalAudio WDM", but "the device cannot start".
Bios is latest DI9. Sound card is enabled in bios. Is anything caked or do I really just need some drivers? I thought windows XP supported such an old chipsed / mobo out of the box anyway.
BTW the dual celerons work very nice, it's hardware porn. Any help with sound would be greatly appreciated. I do not want to stick another PCI sound card in there, the PCI slots are not for spare on this mobo (bottom slot is slave - so effectively only 3 pci slots).
Thank you, this forum is great, I visit here often, finally registered 😀