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The site was given as an example of the card that the system comes with if you want to purchase one I will look to see if I can find another source but a basic soundcard should surfice for your system and probably work out cheaper.These can usually be sourced from an auction site or second hand local computer fair.
104456....thanks so very much for the offer BUT i figured that i better do something when i get the computer this week end...so i ordered the card that General Winters found...hopefully i'll get it no latrer than saturday.
i'll keep everyone posted
thanks again!!!!
:confused: oh, well...
quite a lot has happened since i last posted (NOTHING GOOD)....let's do a quick review:
1) dtr's computer (from her college dorm)all messed up...couldn't even to desktop screen when started up (HAD MANY TROUBLES BEFORE IT GOT TO THIS POINT)
2) at my home, i re-installed Win 98 SE & the necessary drivers
3) after installation, couldn't go on the internet...my computer didn't show any ethernet equipment/driver, no matter what i tried
4) my small local isp installed their own ethernet pack (in the slot next to the original card) so that it would work with the modem that they had previously installed in my home about 1 year ago (which my own computer had been using ever since & my daughter's computer also had been connected to before this last trouble with no problem)
no one could explain why her computer wouldn't still have worked with her original ethernet card
5) with this new ethernet card we were able to get on the internet BUT we had NO sound!!! (the computer's hardware devices didn't show any sound driver)
6) my dtr took computer up to school to use even though no sound while i waited for a sound card that i ordered to come in the mail.
7) ...BUT then my dtr advised me that her computer would NOT connect to the internet up in school!!!!! (as i mentioned, it got on internet here but she couldn't get it on internet at school)
8) she brought it back home & when i hooked it up...it would NOT go on internet here NOW & the info about the ethernet in hardware devices wasn't there.
i downloaded the ethernet card with the floppy disk that my isp left for me...the ethernet info now showed up but i can NOT get on the internet no matter what I did. i even had the local isp come back up & they couldn't get it to work & said there was basically nothing that they could do...that it worked on her computer when they installed the ethernet card initially & it's tough luck for me now.
9) so, we can't get on the internet nor get any sound on her computer (i haven't tried to install the sound card since i'm not on the internet) she said that she can live w/o the sound but shew needs the internet.
WHAT SHOULD I DO ???? (before i take a sledge hammer to it!!!!!)
a) should i try to re-install Win 98 SE again (which is where we started)
b) should i try to upgrade to Win XP Professional Edition OEM version (since msn won't support either Win 98 or Win ME after 6-30-06) or another edition of Win XP that someone can suggest
c) should i buy my dtr a laptop that she desperately wants but we can't afford at this time???
d) should i give her my computer (the Win ME one i'm using at this time) to use at school but then i won't have a computer & how can i then buy anything on ebay if i don't have my computer???
e) tell her to quit college as it's not going to help her get a job anyway
f) anything else that anyone can offer would be appreciated.
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