mobo identity

[madmax jersey ci]

i've just up-graded a young boys PC(my sons friend!), and ... well...

its been a bloomin night-mare, honest.

anyway, i need a site that has a programe to find the identity of the mobo, sooo... i can turn on his onboard sound, and get this f/n sh!t heep out of my front room.
i've taken the hood off and i'm nun the wiser.
its been driving me mad for two solid days now.
coss its been braken down, like each time i start it up it has something else to complain about,not related.
god give me back my old time machine i promise i won't complain again. he he. not
and my cred has hit an all time low, that'll teach me.

plz anyone, i remember a site was on these boards but it was sooo long ago.

i need to find the maker of the board so as to get the right driver for the onboard sound, cos windows 98/millennium aint got a clue, a bit like me.

MADmax

[Boycee]

sorry dunno where to get a program to find out..but is the onboard sound enabled in the bios?

And as for the identity of the mobo....have u checked for any makes/models printed.....don't they have em printed on em.....

[madmax jersey ci]

Originally posted by Boycee
sorry dunno where to get a program to find out..but is the onboard sound enabled in the bios?

And as for the identity of the mobo....have u checked for any makes/models printed.....don't they have em printed on em.....

yeah i'd say it was on the mobo it self but it aint,i know i looked twice, also the sound in the bios is enabled, so i'm realy looking for that prog if u know of anyone that might be able to help!

max

[Norphy]

There is a lovely little program called CTBIOS (Written by a German of all people :)) which will look at your bios string and identify the brand of the mobo. My best suggestion after you do that is to go onto the manufacturers home page and try and identify it by sight.

The file is located here:

ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/ctbios13.zip

For loads of handy advice on motherboards and stuff check out http://www.ping.be/bios and http://www.motherboards.org.

Hope this helps :)

[Norphy]

Damn and smeg, i've just noticed the above link for ctbios is dead. Try this one instead: http://www.driverzone.com/util/bios/ctbios.zip

[[HLnC]Jay-Dee]

sisift sandra will tell u nearly everything u want to know about ur hardware :)

[madmax jersey ci]

Originally posted by [BRR] INorth
Damn and smeg, i've just noticed the above link for ctbios is dead. Try this one instead: http://www.driverzone.com/util/bios/ctbios.zip

these are realy good sites thanks.

i got a driver for what i thought was the one(it was), but the sound still don't bludddddddy work.

it did befor i fooled around with it, and now i've got the boys mum on to me, she's not bad looking so i don't mind that much.

well till she turns ugly.
any more help wouldn't go a miss.

the sound chip is soundpro and well that's about it?
it's on a megatrends/amibios board, no:61-0728-000715-00101111-071595-m715-1440l000-h

ami bios version 07.28,date 15.07.95

anyone plz
max

[UsediLLusioN]

m715 sounds familiar
try http://www.pcchips.com
they use the soundpro chips in their motherboards

[madmax jersey ci]

Originally posted by -=SAT=-UsediLLusioN
m715 sounds familiar
try http://www.pcchips.com
they use the soundpro chips in their motherboards




BINGO!
http://www.pcware.com is the site they gave me for the sound problem, thank you so much.

as i said to the sales guy at pcchips.com the internet is a wonderfull place of information, but it realy only works when there are guys like you( you all ).

my thanks to everyone

madmax