Recently, my pc broke down and having taken it to get serviced they said the motherboard had blew and the hard drive was corrupt. They said the cause might have been a power surge and the night before my pc broke down the power went and came back on in a matter or seconds.
Since getting it serviced though, the hard drive was also replaced and i was told all i had to do was format the new hard drive with a restore to factory settings cd for my pc to work again.
However, when i finished formatting the pc i noticed a few problems.
1. The sound wasn't working and i tried everything in other forums to fix it but nothing has worked.
2. Another problem was my PC din't seem to recognise any hardware i plugged in via my USB port e.g. my ipod, cellphone, printer, scanner etc
... so at the moment all i have is a PC with only a mouse a keyboard and a monitor.
So far i have tried installing some realtek '97 sound drivers but none of them seem to work
my device manager doesnt indicate any conflicts
Under "Sound, video and game controllers?" I found:
Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
Video Codecs
Under "Universal Serial Bus controllers" I found:
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24D7
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
My pc is an Advent 3316
Advent 3316 PC
CPU Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz (Northwood)
BIOS Award BIOS. Press the Delete key to enter.
Motherboard MS 6714 ver 2.0
Memory 512 MB DDR RAM - PC2100
Hard Drive 80 GB Samsung SV8004H
CD Drive 16 x DVD-ROM
52x24x52 CD-RW
Video Card nVidia Geforce 4 MX440 128MB 8x AGP
Sound Card Realtek ALC201 AC'97 audio system
Speakers Advent stereo powered speakers
Modem Generic Soft 56K modem
Network Card Realtek 8139 / 180X (Onboard)
Case D1
Keyboard Advent multimedia keyboard
Mouse Advent optical mouse
In the Box
Disks Supplied
System recovery CD ROM CD 100793
Microsoft Works 7.0
Items Supplied
Advent base unit
Base unit stand
Advent PS/2 mouse
UK mains power cable
UK modem cable
S-video to composite adapter cable
Advent branded stereo speakers
Advent PS/2 keyboard
Documentation Supplied
Quick installation guide
Advent user's guide
Microsoft Windows XP start here guide
Motherboard Info
The motherboard in this PC has caused a lot of confusion. The board has MS-6714 stamped on it but it is not the same board as the one listed on MSI's website. The board in the 3316 is made by Trigem and is known as the Eindhoven (MS-6714 VER:2). Information on the Trigem version can be found on the Motherboards.org website.
One major difference between the two boards is the BIOS. Running the BIOS update that is available on MSI's website will pretty much trash the Trigem board, damage varying from the PC running slow and USB sockets not working through to the machine refusing to boot. You can download the correct BIOS update from here - advent3316.zip.
Apologies to anyone who has had problems as a result of following the link that was previously on this page. Also many thanks to James Ward for pointing this out and providing me with the correct info and BIOS file.
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i found the spec for my pc on the following site
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc/3316.htm
more spec is on this site
http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={d37452b5-4516-41e7-8550-188b2c916a99}&CatID={ffdc0db9-8063-4ba8-8b73-9ab95d2ec249}
no sound, doesn't recognise plugged in devices
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