First post, by Iris4g
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Howdy folks. I'll get straight to the point.
HP Pavilion 4530 with a very bare bones and stripped down P5S-VM.
Initially everything was working great. Tried to add a PCI Radeon 9250 and that's when the fun started. Windows 98 worked fine for a little bit then suddenly after some minor 3D acceleration, bam BSOD. System was unrecoverable and eventually hard locked.
After this, the gpu never worked in the system again. Actually no new PCI devices worked (I tested an Ethernet card), always hanging when windows 98 loads the Pci bus driver.
However The riptide sound+modem continued to work until I started a fresh install of Windows 98 today.
Now the integrated SiS USB ports as well as the riptide media card don't work! Windows 98 just doesn't even see them at all in device manager, no exclamation marks or anything.
I've tried so many different things including :
- Disabling the onboard gpu via jumpers + removing the riptide card, no go. USB still not working and no Pci devices to be found.
-installing windows 98 with the voodoo rush Pci and riptide card + USB mouse all plugged in, the setup hangs at "detecting plug and play hardware " in the Windows 98 install. Forced to restart the system then it continues and finishes
-removed all Pci device and clean install, same as above the setup hangs at the exact same spot
-restoring bios to factory defaults
I'm losing my mind here, what could be happening? HP in their infinite wisdom no Longer has drivers for this system so I can't find a BIOS update other than the one on ASUS' website butim hesitant to try it as I can't seem to get awdflash to backup the existing BIOS on the Rom chip currently.
Could it be capacitors? Physically they look great, and I don't see any magic goo. They're rubyconns
Is the chipset maybe on its deathbed?
The weirdest thing is that I can get my voodoo rush to work as much as Windows seeing it and using the standard display driver. Have yet to test actually installing the driver.
Sorry if I'm all over the place. It's 12am and I'm stuck writing ona phone no less... but advice or tips would be really helpful! I'd love to get this tiny HP working again.