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The Plug and Play ID for this device is PCI\VEN_1106 DEV_3288-SUBSYS_08881849 *is* the High Definition Audio Controller. Of course it *is* part of the southbridge. Remember *that* is the difference between the 8237 and the 8237A (which is the one your board has). Search VIA for the correct audio driver (I think it's this one, though, but it seems you'll have to tweak the INF here, too). In any case, do inspect the driver offered by ASRock for 2k/XP under the hood... you may find out it also supports 9x/ME, although that's not advertised. BTW, please, do zip and attach the modified NVAGP.INF, since it may be of help for others.

The manual says you have an ALC888, so you need, at least, drivers for the ALC662 Audio Codec, and may have to tweak the inf, for them to work... BTW, here's a precious old post by jaclaz, which is certaily warranted to be quoted here: And, yes, HimemX.exe is buggy. You shouldn't use it unless it actually solves some issue for you.

Use the DOS app from Craig's PCI Programs to find what your unknown device is. *Do read* the threads I pointed you to. Nothing will solve your shutdown problem, because it's a known bug in the 82.69 nVidia driver. A downgrade may do it though. I'd bet on the 77.72, because of this:

See: nVidia GeForce and Win 9x/ME - Relevant Threads

No. A graphics card with 1024 MB is almost impossible to use with 9x/ME, and, moreover, nobody ever got a GeForce 9800 to work with 9x/ME. Downgrade to a FX 5200, and all should work. With your present graphics card, forget it: it just won't work. I sorry.

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1) Did you have the same shutdown problem before, when you had installed without ACPI? 2) The 82.69 is known for shutdown and restart in MS-DOS issues that remain unsolved. See: nVidia GeForce and Win 9x/ME - Relevant Threads

@PuntoMX: the four connector backplate you linked to has two ten-pin header connectors, so it won't do. The right type exists, as you can see in the pic I posted many posts ago (here), but it's really hard to find anyone selling that.

While I agree with jaclaz, I think that since JorgeA has acquired a multimeter, it'd be good for him to learn how to use it properly. In any case, the common test leads that come with the average multimeter are too thick for performing good measurements on motherboard headers or the tracks inside a female type-A USB connector. To overcome this I extend the red lead with a sharper thin object, which I fasten snugly to the lead point with common adhesive tape, taking care that no tape gets in-between them, so that there's good electrical contact between the extender object and the lead point. A common sewing needle, a shirtmaker's pin with the head cut off, or even a hypodermic needle with the female Luer-Lok cut off are good choices for the extender object. The pic below depicts my own red test lead extended with a shirtmaker's pin with the head cut off. Of course, just after fastening the pin to the test lead, the sanity checks #2 and 3 from my previous post must be repeated, but this time using the pin's point, just to be secure there really is good electrical contact betwwen the pin and the test-lead's point. There is no need to do it to the black test lead too, because that will usually be grounded by inserting into one of the center holes (any of the two which are connected to black cables) of an unused molex connector, and for that the test lead has just the right thickness.

GDI.EXE is a NE executable, hence it has no PE Timestamp. But since it always comes together with GDI32.DLL, which is a PE executable, the latter's PE Timestamp may be used to date both. The PE Timestamp you should consider is the first that PEDUMP shows, the one in the File Header, which is written last during the linking process. The fact that there are two such dates separated by a few seconds reflects the fact that compilation and linking aren't and instantaneous process, the "exports table" being created just a little time before the creation of the "File Header", which is the last step, and, for all purposes, the best estimate of when the file was actually written to disk in final form, for the first time, so that is its true "birthday" of sorts. Sometimes, relinking already created parts can result in a wider timespan between the "exports table" and the "File Header". MS often revises the hotfixes, but rarely does so with their corresponding articles. Of late, they indicate the revisons by adding -v2-, -v3-, etc., to the filename, but that's a more recent practice, so that the hotfix' contents not corresponding to what is stated in the article is not totally unexpected. Yes. That's the correct conclusion. And they may have decided not to release 4.01.971 for some reason (maybe because they decided to stop supporting Original at that point). I'd think it's a fair bet that GDI.EXE/GDI32.DLL 4.00.970 are the latest extant files for Original.

1st analog multimeter use lesson: These are the needed 3 sanity checks you should always do to the multimeter, before proceeding to any serious measurement (the manual leaflet is here for easy reference: 0) Remember the display has a mirror for a reason. You must always read it from a position in which the image of the needle is hidden behind the actual needle. When this happens you're looking in a straght perpendicular to the gauge, so there's no parallax error. 1) Do the Continuity Check (see manual, about it).. 2) Set it to ohmmeter 10 touch the test leads together (and keep them in touch): if you don't read zero, correct it with the resistance zero adjust (see manual, to find it). 3) Set it to DCV 10 and measure a brand-new common lantern battery. You should read 1.5V or slightly less.

BTW, this is also a good place to remember this relevant info you provided back then: And add the photo of the relevant part of your board, for easy reference:

So, you don't want any "low-profile" backplates, but normal ones (they usually don't say they're "normal", but when they are "low-profile" that is mentioned). Yes, we must locate the +5V pin, by using the multimeter, since all the documentation we gathered before didn't provide actual pinouts (the description of which pin is which) for the headers you're going to use (more on how to actually do it later, in my next post). However ASUS is consistent, and their manual for my my boars does provide a pinout for its headers. Since you board has both double-row (2, white and black, used) and single-row (4, black, unused) USB header, I bet all of them have the same pinout, with the +5V pin being the leftmost pin (the one nearest the back of the motherboard) and the ground pin being the fouth pin, which, if the 5th pin is missing (and it should be), is then the rightmost pin, the one nearest to the fron of the board, after which there is the empty space for the missing 5th pin, in each header. So, if we confirm this by using the multimeter, we're safe to go on.

In any case, 4-port backplates put the USB ports too close together for my liking (it makes it difficult to use, say, 4 pendrives at the same time). I'd either use two backplates with two USB ports apiece, or one backplate and one front bay plate, preferably a 3.5" one, if there are any unused drive bays available in front.

Yes, it actually *IS* a mad house! But, when push comes to shove, you can use the PE Timestamp (see this, this, this and this) to sort things out, in many occasions (provided the files in question *are* PE executables (EXE, SYS, OCX, DLL, TLB usually)... although, in some cases it just adds to the confusion. There's nothing equivalent for NE, LE and plain DOS executables, I'm sorry to say. Also of interest may be this old post, by Petr, on versioning. HTH

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OK. The OP question is already answered, so there's no point in elaborating further.

You've hit jackpot! The five pin black connector to the motherboard headers is the correct one in both. The difference is the height of the back-plate. A normal one is about 4.75", while a "low profile" is about 3.14". The only way of knowing for sure which you should buy is by getting a ruler and measuring the height of any of the back-plates already present in your machine (the video card is the most obvious one to measure, and if you use a thin flexible plastic (not metal!) ruler, you can measure it precisely enough from the back of the unopened machine, or from the inside, but in any case, don't need to remove the card to measure). Since you want to distinguish 4.75" from 3.14", there's no need for great precison, after all.