Packard Bell iMEDIA

zAbbo

Trying to fix a PB iMEDIA Machine for a friend, drivers are hard to come by. I`m gonna get a good luck at the board on Saturday, Here`s what i know:

VIA Chipset VTxxxxxx
AMD 1.3
64MB RAM
Onboard Everything
CNR Modem ( Got Drivers For This)

Machine came preinstalled with XP, bought in PC World in Dublin and is pretty s h i t e very slow, thinking of installing WIN2k on it.

Just really need the Video Card Drivers, here`s what i`ve tried:
VIA 4 in 1
SIS drivers

Anyone who has one of this machines, post here with any help

zAbbo

Couldn`t find the driver for the graphics so i whipped in an old Rage II 8mb AGP Card and Win2k picked up the drivers straight away.

The machine takes at least 5 mins to boot and has 128mb pc133 Ram and an WD ata100 HDD, but the build quality is crap

Biohazard give me some helpful ideas on searching for drivers, cheers pal but it was a fruitless fu<k of a road/ Still you did sell me a Zip drive(top man)

Anyway i know the whole crowd have been waitin to see the end of this saga, such is the responce in posts (ahem)

PS. Don`t buy a Packard Bell iMedia there are utter crap

Gerry

Any idea of which via chipset it is yet? With a fresh install of 2k and the via 4 in 1's on it should be reasonably nippy.

bkehoe

Forcing SIS drivers onto it may not help.
Did you try the VIA KM133 graphics drivers from https://archive:archive@ranger.s3graphics.com/370drv/ ?

Brendan

zAbbo

Yeah i tried the sis drivers, no joy
for the time being i`m just gonna leave the system as it is with the old graphics card and maybe re assess the situation in 3 months.

Saruman

I had one PB machine back in 96 and would NEVER touch another one!!

As for XP, 128mb of ram is just about enough to run it.. but just enough.. i dont care what MS say the min spec is.. 128 for useability and if you want to do anything like open notepad.. add in another 128!! btw im only being a little sarcastic.. not far off the truth though!

zAbbo

True and the cases are exactly "user friendly". I nearly had to take out the power supply just to get anwhere near the mobo, i suppose this is what the "non-enthusiast" gets for going to PC WORLD and the like, alos i think the PC stands for pure crap, not 2 sure tho

Inspector Gadget

...this machine will be as slow as Christmas as it'll be paging stuff in and out of swap (virtual memory) constantly. Get 256MB of RAM for it - it'll be like having a whole new computer.

Gadget

zAbbo

never heard of the expression "as slow as christmas"

always taught it was " as gay as christmas"

but there you go