Hi all, Just to share my experiences. I acquired a Pentium4 chipset and ditto motherboard (Intel D845WN). To boot I received a lovely present: a Hercules prophet 4000XT (64mb) video card.---- Sheer horror! The whole lot put together.
The motherboard has a (not too helpful) cd-ROM with it. It (of course) contains m$ drivers, but not the right ones...well done, wintel!:( Mdk8.1 installed reasonably well, considering it didn't recognize any of the chipsets........ but the Hercules AGP card (with Kyroschips) was/is a killer. I can handle a gui at 16 bits...That's it!!...:( And frankly that's the only (major) hassle I haven't been able to deal with, as of yet. The integrated soundcard works under linux excepting trouble with shared IRQ's due to the extra USB ports. After disabling the USB ports (I only need one, I've got an external USB-hub) my shutdown problems were over--the shutdown procedure hung itself over shutting down USB ports:( Which made me change over to ext3 -- and I like it!:) I got the whole lot going in a reasonable way, as this mail proves:) BUT there's plenty more to be done afore it meets my expectations, it wasn't all as cheap as it sounds. Wintel products don't come for free.....! SO....I thought: Why not install Winblow$ and see what I'm missing? Looked up my ol' 98 OEM cd-ROM and away she was....... Installing the (not all too correct ) drivers from the Intel cd-ROM did the job, then the cd-ROM that came with the Hercules card..OK! (not terrific but OK!) But, but...NO Sound:( and still IRQ problems of course. I swear: I will never purchase anything from Intel again if there's an AMD option available!! And that's putting it mildly! Two days ago I would have pounced on- and gladly assaulted anyone connected in anyway to Intel. Time heals all wounds! And if it doesn't, some good soul will have written a linux driver (which I couldn't) somewhere to releave my woe's:) That's why I love this OS and the people along with it!:) -- HOPE! -- Good hunting, Harm Bathoorn.
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