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Fatwah on Western Digital
I have a presario 7599 (p3-700) sitting in my car right now.
Its onboard sound is dead, but not dead enough that Windows can't still detect it via plug and play.
Compaq, in its wisdom, provides no way to disable onboard sound either through the BIOS (I can change it to IRQ 5 or IRQ 9, that's it), or on the board. Every time I disable the onboard sound in Windows, it's detected on reboot.
Install a "real" sound card (AWE64 PCI, a generally good card) in any PCI slot, and the machine hangs. Try to install Windows, the machine hangs. install 2000, machine hangs.
I frickin' hate Compaq.
Its onboard sound is dead, but not dead enough that Windows can't still detect it via plug and play.
Compaq, in its wisdom, provides no way to disable onboard sound either through the BIOS (I can change it to IRQ 5 or IRQ 9, that's it), or on the board. Every time I disable the onboard sound in Windows, it's detected on reboot.
Install a "real" sound card (AWE64 PCI, a generally good card) in any PCI slot, and the machine hangs. Try to install Windows, the machine hangs. install 2000, machine hangs.
I frickin' hate Compaq.