Re: At Wits' End
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:58:14 +1000
Andy <kanadaiy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> tod <no_spam_i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> Here is the webpage with drivers from Foxconn for your motherboard.
>> http://www.foxconnchannel.com/productsDownload_motherboard2.cfm?pMotherboard=K7S741MG-6L
>> Here is the SIS webpage with even newer drivers for your motherboard.
>> http://www.sis.com/download/
>> You might consider leaving out the Sound blaster and using built-in sound.
>> Sound Blasters are considered Bus Hogs. Which model Sound Blaster are you
>> using?
> It's a Realtek AC'97 board. The guy who sold me the computer said it
> would provide better sound than the built-in sound. I'm getting the
> impression that he screwed me in more ways than one. The poblem I
> have with discarding the Realtek AC'97 is that it has 4 jacks, 2 for
> the speakers, 1 for the earphone and 1 for the microphone. The mother
> board has only 3 jacks: green, red and blue. So I'm short one jack there.
Thats just a different approach to the use of jacks. The older soundblaster
cards had the jacks hard wired with one exception and the newer builtin
sound systems have the jacks configurable by software instead.
>> Also go into the bios and disable things you will not use, like
>> parallel and serial ports.
>> It will free up some IRQs, which might help the Sound Blaster work
>> better. To get into the bios, need to hit "Delete" key
>> in the first few seconds when the computer is first turned on (boot
>> up). "Andrew Manninger" <kanadaiy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:aQWRe.252885$on1.230512@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!
>>>
>>> I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat
>>> damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced,
>>> including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller.
>>> Now I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system
>>> (Windows XP Prof.) and all application programs, and therein lies
>>> the problem. The new motherboard is a K7S741MG that came with a
>>> WinFast Utility CD, Version 1.0. According to the instructions that
>>> came with the motherboard, this CD contains the drivers needed for
>>> this mother board. Trouble is, when I install these drivers I lose
>>> the sound (Creative SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the
>>> sound is soon last anyway, and I have trouble installing other
>>> components of the system. Any help to overcome these problems would be much
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Andy
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