Window98 startup problem and bios sound problem...

[alighieri]

Hello, I am currently putting a new operating system (Win 98) on a HP vectra P3 800MHz with manufacture mobo using intel chipset (shipped with Win 2000 Professional). While attempting to get the computer to recognize that it really does have onboard sound I messed up a bios setting somewhere and now the computer reboots, states that it is starting Win98 and then puts me in dos with promt A:. What did I do? and how do I get back to running Windows from startup.

Question 2: After installing Win98 the hardware manager detects that there is a PCI audio card (there is not one, I am using the mobo sound) How do I get the computer to recognize that it has built in sound capabilities?

Any and all help would be appreciated as I am currently feeling quite frustrated

Alighieri

 

[Lehmann]

On your first question, I'll need much more information. Any error messages? It looks to me like you're booting off a floppy if it dumps you at A:. Even if you ran into an error it would dump you at C:. Tell me what you're doing.

On your second question: The PCI sound that it's finding is your on-board sound. Most of the integrated devices on a motherboard use the PCI bus (without requiring a PCI slot).

Hope this helps.

John