"One slot left" - Gateway 810 Intel "Flex ATX" Move sound or video to it ?
I scored a Gateway "cute little box" ; FLEXATXSTC BRO Essential;
800P3 for my wife. For her needs; it's almost perfect. She's not a hardcore gamer; she uses "lightweight" business apps. Reality is that it's mostly email and surfing g We have (finally) got broadband via Verizon DSL ; she can now do streaming video/audio; but it's "stutter/bump/herky jerky" . It's not the connection; it works fine on my "max tweaked" K6/III + box at 580 mhz. There's two half-height PCI slots available; one's filled with the necessary (stock) LinkSys NIC. (everything else is on the mobo) Both video and audio are "onboard"; the "Intel Extreme" graphics is built into the chipset and I really don't think it's the cause of the problem. I'm suspecting it's the AC97 audio. I've *never* had good luck with anybody's AC97 onboard "audio (??)" . FWIW; it's running 98SE; fully patched and WinUped ( guess who did the techbeta on bothg); 384 megs; all drivers and mobo BIOS current; and I've done whatever's possible with Gateway's meager BIOS options to shut off "stuff" or otherwise 'optimize' this box. The only "legacy" item is an onboard modem as Com1 -- everthing else is USB 1.1 . I'm leaning at doing the sound card as first attack; I can buy a Yamaha chipsetted noisemaker with a PCB that's "half-height PCI" but a full-height bracket for $9 .. reworking the bracket is a no-brainer .. Ant better ideas ?? |
"R. Asby Dragon" said:
We have (finally) got broadband via Verizon DSL ; she can now do streaming video/audio; but it's "stutter/bump/herky jerky" I'm suspecting it's the AC97 audio. I've *never* had good luck with anybody's AC97 onboard "audio (??)" . Make sure all codecs up to date. Disable the onboard audio and see if it cures the problem. If it doesn't, try the video card from your machine. -- Mac Cool |
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