Compaq Presario DeskPros

[Slamman]

This could go into the thread that covers multitudes of problems, but in my case, I am just having this issue I can't resolve, the latest among them.

 

I've had this board for awhile, mounted in an Emachine AMD case, but it was a Deskpro Pentium 3 board with a Celeron 700 I think originated in my eMachine eTower. The Everest scan shows 'external clock as 66Mhz, the Ram as PC100 (256MB) and the mainboard supporting 512MB of Ram as well as 66 to 133Mhz FSB, or front bus speeds.

 

So, if I seemingly have complient hardware specs, what might be wrong.

Most recently I added the Unicow DLL [dynamic link] that I made a prior post about, it adds some Win 9x functionality to XP, I believe, but in this case, makes the VideoLAN application work on Windows 98 and ME systems. HOWEVER, I had to set the video resolution at the second from the highest setting on Display Properties for a video image to show, which in this case is 1152x864.

I did this more then once on installs to get it working with an image (video), however, now I am at 600x800 setting (4 are available upwards of this one at 24bit color depth) with freezing still taking place.

 

Everest shows there is an Intel 3D accelerator on this i810 chipset mobo, which is the i752/82810 GMCH vid Bios 5/2000, RAMDAC 230Mhz, with Direct X6.0 support. Windows ME as installed is Direct X 7.1

Does this API difference cause some problems?

The main defect I am having is that the mouse needs to be moved for the events on screen to update. This doesn't happen on other computers I have.

 

Something software based, or perhaps memory is causing this?

EDIT: Wait, I reset from 600x800 back up again and it's playing a video proper, but I lost the audio from the ESS sound driver, I guess I need a reboot, and see what happens...

 

 

I'm thinking of testing with an audio and video card added to see if they are the effecting areas on the mainboard. Ideas?

Edited November 13, 2008 by Slamman