HP Pavilion 6355
-333 Pentium 2
-64MB ram
-4GB HDD
-ATI 264-VT4(DX)(onboard)[dx8.1 drivers]
-Crystal PnP Audio System(onboard)
-LT Winmodem
-Goldstar CRD-8240B(cd-rom)
-Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Host Controller
-USB Root Hub
-Kodak DVC325 Digital Video Cam(USB)
-windows 98(not SE)
this is the first of a multi-part saga of problems i have. i’m long-winded, so this is going to be over the span of a few posts.
everything started the week i got the computer. it was doing fine until i started clearing up hard disk space and deleted over 20MB of quarantined files. later the next day, i consulted a friend who told me it is a bad idea to do that, so in a panic i downloaded a freeware antivirus program. it found 5 infected(backdoor trojan) files, two of them in the windows/system folder. with the program, i first renamed them, and then deleted them in the same session without rebooting. i then attempted a reboot to MSDOS(i think to try another MSDOS antivirus, but i don’t know why, i don’t know much dos). it then locked up during the boot sequence, apparently while trying to open a dos program or dos itself, i don’t really know. i could only get it to work through safe mode. my father then worked on it for a weekend, and got it running to what it is today – no sound, faulty d3d support, iffy CDROM recognition, and iffy USB(with my digital camera).
the sound it what i’m most worried about. i and my dad both tried installing a different card(soundblaster16) – he tried drivers from a modem blaster disk, and i drivers from the website, but neither worked. i then tried the drivers from the restore disk, but that didn’t work either. i know it’s the drivers in windows or windows itself because the speakers work just fine in the DOS game, quake. it’s just in windows applications it doesn’t work.
