Rob_T You need to provide your model number. There are about 37 NetVista models that can have a PIII-866.

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The model is 6646-Q1U Apparently, through hours and hours of surfing, there were different sound cards (chips) used too. How do I know for sure what I have, Intel has stopped supporting the 810E chipset.

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"Apparently, through hours and hours of surfing, there were different sound cards (chips) used too" According to the info below, all the onboard sound chips for your specific 6646-Q1U model were made by ADI - it is unlikely different models of ADI chips were used, but if there were, the newest drivers should support all models. See the FAQ info below - you may be trying to install the drivers the wrong way!! "Intel has stopped supporting the 810E chipset" Not true. Intel supports damn near everything it has ever made. See below for IBM's video driver download, and the end. ..... Software (United States) - NetVista 6644, 6645, 6646 Preloaded applications Including: 1810e video driver Version: 5.12.01.2586 Vendor: Intel ADI audio driver Version: 5.12.2502 Vendor: ADI http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s... Software (Canada-English) - NetVista 6644, 6645, 6646 Preloaded applications 1810e video driver Version: 5.12.01.2586 Vendor: Intel ADI audio driver Version: 5.12.2502 Vendor: ADI http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s... ADI audio = ADI SoundMAX onboard audio Note: most Win 2000 drivers work fine for Win XP, if there is no XP driver listed. Software and device drivers (most common) - NetVista 6644, 6645, 6646 including older ADI SoundMAX onboard audio driver 4 January 2001, 810E onboard video driver 28 June 2000. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s... Specific Software and device drivers - NetVista 6646-Q1U (If this link doesn't work, go to the above link and choose "Get additional drivers and files", type in 6646 and Q1U) including newest ADI Sound Max Audio driver - 2002-06-17 http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s... ..... SoundMAX FAQ http://forms.analog.com/Form_Pages/... Including, quote: "Best Install Method: Run the Setup Program The most effective method to install the driver software for your computer is to run the "Setup" program that comes with the driver software. Not the Best Install Method: Let Windows Find It If the audio driver software for your computer is not installed, Windows may find it and attempt to find the driver software. If you install the software using this method: You won't get any additional SoundMAX features if they are provided in the driver software. Windows might not actually find the driver software. You won't be able to use the Add/Remove Programs feature in the control panel to remove the driver software later on. " ...... Newest available 810E onboard video drivers: Intel® 82810 Graphics Controller http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr... See the Read Me file - it supports 810E Newest availble mboard chipset drivers: Intel® 810 Chipset Family This supports ALL 810 chipsets http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...

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Maybe you'd be better off to install the older driver on the IBM web site. From the SoundMAX FAQ (see link above) Quote: "29 Sound is playing too fast. If the audio sounds too fast you have installed the wrong SoundMAX driver or you tried using the native OS driver. In order to fix this you need to use the driver that is distributed with your pc. If you do not have one check with your computer or motherboard maker for a driver. "

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O.K - Guess what . . Not an ADI chip, Win finds an AC'97 - Searched the web and downloaded drivers, and drivers and drivers... and yes "Tubesandwires" I hunted around the sight you suggested also...all to no avail. I even at the "looked pre-loaded on your computer" and, Yes it shows ADI. Now I'm even more confused. If "all of my model came with the soundmax chip" why is it finding the AC'97 and why are there 2 different mfg's of an AC'97 chip ? I blew away the driver and let Win do it's little hardware update song and dance and it found the AC'97 I found Realtek and Avance as mfg's of the chip while searching (neither of which worked.) I did notice that after install and reboot, the driver info would show the same as pre-install. . . I tried to unzip the install pgms to load from 'let me specify' and point it to the .inf but couldn't (one install didn't even have one) Here is the diver info for the default.. AC'97 driver for Intel(r) for 82801AA Controller Microsoft 11/18/1999 5.0.2184.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Publisher As far as back-tracking drivers, do you think I could get a Win2k driver pre-1999? I kind-a-doubt-it.

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AC 97 is a generic sound standard. Support for it may be built into the main chipset or dedicated sound chip on the mboard, or a mboard may have a separate generic chip that supports AC 97 even if it doesn't also have a dedicated sound chip as well. Some times the dedicated sound chip is an option and isn't on the mboard, but I doubt that's the case with this mboard. As for Avance, I believe that's what the A in ADI stands for. Open up your case and look at the mboard - you will probably see a chip labelled ADI something, or SoundMAX something, etc. Win 2000 and XP often identify some components as Realtek something or other. Realtek doesn't make anything itself - it re-markets products that are made by others as Realtek models, in Realtek packaging. Microsoft chose to use drivers labelled as Realtek ones rather than using a lot of individually named drivers for the many different companies Realtek re-markets the products of. I have compared the driver downloads of many devices to those XP provided labelled as Realtek ones in Windows, and the main *.inf file for the drivers is often identical except for the label specified in it seen in Windows, and the other flies in the downloads are often identical. The problem with that is Windows gets it wrong it is difficult to determine whether you actually have the right drivers when they are labelled Realtek whatever. Either one of the SoundMAX driver downloads in response 9 at the IBM site should work fine if you have the ADI chip on the mboard, which you probably do. The downloads contain many files - the files within must be extracted from the downloads. If the downloads do not self execute to install files on the hard drive when you click on them (pay attention to where the files go on your hard drive, you have to extract the files some other way - e.g. if it is a .zip file you have to unzip the download using Winzip or whatever. Install the drivers using the install or Setup program that comes with the drivers, as the FAQ in response 9 tells you. Remove any sound drivers listed in Add and Remove Software before you install those drivers.

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