First post, by emosun
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I've pulled out a packardbell Pro 108cd (pentium 90/ 72mb ram/onboard video) from off the shelf and have tried booting it and running it for the first time since i bought it. Was able to get windows 98 installed and running fine. However , I'm not sure how to get pci cards working in the machine.
I'm not sure if the problem is that I simply do not know how the IRQ works or if theres something actually wrong with the pci system or slots themselves.
So far I have tried two pci to usb cards , a pci video card , and a pci sound blaster card. The issue is the machine will not automatically see any of the cards and prompt me to install the driver. Having the machine search for non plug and play devices also yields no results as it cannot find them. I'm aware that it gives me the option of installing the driver anyway without being able to locate the hardware but I know that it still needs the see the hardware first before it'll actually work. There is an ISA sound card that is installed and working. So at least i know the riser board is probably functional.
I'm wondering what my diagnostic steps should be now from here
here's more info on the motherboard its using.