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Hi = New Registered user here. I found your forum impressive and thought perhaps you might be able to help me.
I am a volunteer computer trainer for our very small isolated community. And finding tech help is difficult.
I bought a new computer and gave my old one to a neighbour after I did the following upgrades:
Computer: Cicero with MSI Gibson 6533G w/lan motherboard (video/sound on board I believe)
Intel P4 - 1.6AGhz 512 cache
Upgraded from Windows XP home to Pro on formated newer hard drive
Upgraded to newer CD-Rom and New DVD
Upgraded Award Bios to latest for that board (had to purchase it from Award)
I installed the audio/video drivers from the original Cicero system disk. The drivers installed for audio were Avance AC97 and Legacy
Everything seemed to be working fine when I gave it to my neighbour.
He tried installing a game called "Sid Meier's Pirates". Installation stopped because of inadequate display driver.
The system has more than the minimum for thise game. But I did upgrade the display driver (Sis -650=651-M650-M652-740)with no problem and the game installed successfully.
When we tried to play the game, the system froze, had to hard boot to get up and running again. I checked to make sure DirectX 9 was installed, it was, it didn't find any problems with my devices. However, when I checked the system hardware and the Avance AC97 audio, windows said is was working properly, but I could not update the driver because windows said it does not recognize this device and could not install the driver. What is there says its working properly. I believe the problem is with the audio/sound drivers, but I do not know where to go to update them. I have contacted MSI, but no reply as to where I can get the updates. I also read here somewhere that my chipset should be updated before updating the audio? Can anyone help?
Thanks so much for your time.
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