??? Motherboard - Video/Sound Built in, but messed up. ???

[mark01]

I bought a new motherboard & installed it. The Video & Sound is built in, and I installed Windows 98 SE. The color is screwed up with 16-bit color. When I change it to 32-bit color, it appears to be fine, but some of the pictures on the internet look like they are garbled. Plus, I put a game (boarderzone demo) & the color is all messed up on that too. Plus, when I play a wav file through the sould card, it sound's all garbled too.
Any ideas on how to fix???

AMD 1.2 Ghz - 256 MB RAM
30 GB ATA-100

 

[Mulga]

You should have received sound and video drivers on a CD ROM with your motherboard. Did you install these? If not you will have to do so. If you did install these drivers you should try installing them again as they may have become corrupted.

 

[tlcscousin]

Find and install the drivers for both video and sound. Windows installs the drivers it thinks are needed, not always what is exactly in the machine.
The motherboard comes with a cd with the drivers for both sound and video.

 

[edfair]

Or look in the documentation to see what chip sets you have for each and download off the chip website. But it doesn't always work because the m/b mafg implements the stuff other than the way the chip mfg designed it.
You could also go to the m/b site and possibly get updated drivers. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[mark01]

I used the CD that came with the motherboard to install the drivers. It also came with an updated patch to fix problems, but it didn't work.

When I first installed them, there was a mbr virus that I was unaware of. I since then cleaned off the virus. I have not yet reinstalled the drivers since I cleaned the virus off, but I will.

Any other advice??

 

[mark01]

I re-installed the drivers, but it didn't work. Still is messed up. Is it the motherboard?

 

[tlcscousin]

Try a boot from a startup disk,then at the a:\ type fdisk /mbr (a:\fdisk /mbr)This will wipe out the master boot record.Then run the virus check one more time.Then try reinstalling the drivers.
You could go to device manager and remove the display adapter and the sound card.After a reboot when the new hardware is found, point it to the drivers on the cd.

 

[mark01]

Good Idea, but I've tried that too. It didn't work. I've installed all the drivers many times, reinstalled Windows 98 SE two times, and Installed Windows 2000 Professional. They all did the same thing. I emailed the company I bought it from, because I think it is bad. Was this a bad decision?

 

[tlcscousin]

I would say it was a good idea.The sound and video both having problems could very well be a faulty board.If it is still on warranty they should replace it.If not then the worst they can do is say togh and you would have to either replace the onboard with add ons or get another board.

 

[Psychosylph]

Just a quick idea - I've had trouble with incompatible RAM doing strange things to onboard video and sound. You may want to try a different stick and see if it changes anything.

 

[mark01]

I'd try more ram, but I can't afford it. I might just put some add in cards that I have to fix the problem. I don't want to return it because it will take another 2 weeks to get the new one.

 

[tlcscousin]

I would still contact the manufacturer.If it has a problem now and you wait till it comes off warranty you will be up the creek if it goes completely south.
At least it will be documented that way, and you might have future recourse in the event of a complete failure.