i only have
Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Compatible
Crystal SoundFusion(tm) PCI Audio Accelerator
Gameport Joystick
under sound, video, and game controllers. I'm sorry for the delayed response, im going to reinstall tonight though. can anyone tell me if it is very difficult to upgrade memory in a laptop? a program i used that scans your computer for all software/hardware info it can find (possibly belarc, i cant remember now) and it said i could upgrade the memory to a maximum of 300 or 360 mb of memory, which would put this computer in the range of being able to comfortably handle XP, which is what I would like to do.
On a side note, any time I leave the laptop unplugged for awhile (I think 2 hours was the shortest amount of time this has happened at), the computer goes to a debug screen where it asks me to reset the time. Then it reboots, and a big ON > OFF screen pops up. If I leave the computer on for about 20-30 minutes, then reboot it, it runs fine, also if i have the 98SE disc in the cd rom and it tries to boot from there, that bypasses this screen as well (i think). I don't have a working battery for the laptop, so im assuming the clock battery is warn out as well and causing this?
Also, this situation caused me to go to the BIOS screen, which allows you to run a series of tests on everything on your computer (hard drive, display, cd-rom, battery, infrared sensor, modem, ect) and an error number always comes up on the hard drive. As I was checking the device manager, the Hard Disk Controllers section has the following info:
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Standard Bus Mastering IDE Hard Disk Controller
Standard Bus Mastering IDE Hard Disk Controller
the standard is there twice, and theres a warning (!) icon on the Intel item. When I checked properties, it said that "This device is causing a resource conflict (code 15)
I'm going to run the hardware troubleshooter, but I think I've tried this before to no avail. Any thoughts on any of this?