IBM 2292-21U Netvista and Win98SE

Hi All,
First time poster so I hope y'all can help me out a little bit.

I ran my office voice mail system happily for years on an old PII running win98SE.
I also had an old ATI TV Tuner card installed in it but its primary function was for the voice mail using a SoundBlaster Flash56 PCI data/fax/voice modem.

Recently I started having internittant startup video problems which I was unable to isolate and decided it was just tired, and needed to be retired.

I have an old IBM Netvista that a customer gave me when I recently replaced it with a new higher end PC.

I figured that might make a suitable replacement for it.

Well, the first thing I discovered is that apparently Windows XP (original OS for this Netvista) does not support voice modems. To be more specific, Microsoft says they do not support THIS voice modem, but then when I tried to locate a list of supported voice modems, they could not provide any such list...

So, I decided I'd try to install Win98SE on the Netvista.
Of course it had the OS2 partition with all the recovery software on it, as well as the large partition with the XP installation on it.

One of the things I have consistantly LOVED about IBM is their support site.
They are VERY detailed and I was easily able to located and download Win98 versions of almost everything that was installed in the original XP version.
I burned it all to CD and blew out the big partition, and installed Win98SE without any obvious issues.
Of course, the video, network, sound and some of the system devices did not install with drivers, but I ran the executable installations from my burned CD, and again, all went seemingly well.
I went to update.microsoft.com and downloaded all the security patches and also MediaPlayer 9.
I was able to install the voice modem, and its software, also, without apparent issue, and it functions fine.

Now, here are my problems:
1. The netvista has a CD-RW/DVD drive, and a CD-R drive installed in it.
When I try to install the Win98SE version of the IBM burning software, I get an error indicating there is no supported hardware installed. I suspect that I could download a freeware version of roxio, nero, et al and solve this problem so at this time, I'm not too bothered by this.

2. The DVD player software did install and does function, however the DVD plays at about double speed. I can get the DVD to play at normal speed by clicking the "single step" button, but then I get no sound. I estimate I could solve this problem with a freeware version of PowerDVD or similar 3rd party app, so again, I'm not too worried about it right now.

3. When I play a video file in MediaPlayer 9, it too runs fast and jerky. This is a more important issue for me as I frequently will need to watch a video from one of my installers to insure they did everything just the right way I want them it.

4. In device manager, I have yellow exclamations by:
PCI System management BUS
Unknown Device
Now except for the possibility that these devices could be causing, or effecting the above errors, the system seems to be otherwise functioning fine.
I've gone back to the IBM site, and tried to locate anything related to it and there is nothing there:
"Intel Busmaster IDE / Windows 2000, Me, 98SE / Driver is native to operating system "

The motherboard is an actual IBM board P/N 25P5076 and I tried to search for that and I get no results.

So, does anybody know if this MLB was actually made by OEMed by anther manufacturer, and if so, what manufacturer that would be?
If there is a site that might have a slew of possible drivers?
Anything that might help me resolve these final few issues?

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!!

PS, I'm a pretty sharp guy and an Admin on another web forum so I hate to just be a sponge. So while I wait for some possible help, I'll look and see if I might be able to help out on some other threads.

Cheers!

 

Thanks for the link!
I triedto PM you but your box is full...

I tried and tried to find the list, but everytime I thought I'd found it, the page said it was moved or removed, and did not provide an updated location.

Argh.

Thanks for that. I'll look into acquiring a voice modem for XP cheaply.

As for problem #4 above, I did a litle bit more thinking, and then it dawned on me that different from the Audio, video and Network drivers, the Intel Information executable only extracted the utility, and DID NOT actually run it.

So I located it, ran it, and it did indeed itentify the referenced items, and installed proper drivers for them, and all went well with that.
It restarted, detected all the hardware, restarted again, and poof, all the exclamations are gone.

Sadly however, problems 1 through 3 have not been resolved by getting the devices correctly identified and driven.

 

It should be an Intel chipset. You identify Intel chipsets by the BIOS code on the second screen at startup. If it has an IBM splashscreen, you need to press the ESC key, then immediately press the Pause key. The code has the chipset model (eg. 440LX).

It sounds like you can just get the most recent chipset drivers from Intel (which were a 2004 version for Win 98). If you run the driver installation, it won't install if it is wrong chipset type.

Matt

 

Thanks, but as I mentioned, the chipset issue (#4) has been resolved.

I was well aware that it is a 440 chipset, but I was falling short of actually installing the chipset drivers.

Once it dawned on me, it was no problem.
I really feel silly for not figuring it out sooner, but all of the other executables from the IBM site fully ran, but the Intel did not.

DOH!

 

On the IBM, I did install IE6, but I was actually doing my searching of the Microsoft site on my main PC with of course also has IE6 installed.

 

Try the DVD combo on it's own (disconnect the CD-R).

Have you recently arranged the drives for this setup? Check the jumper configuration. CD-R's can be fussy about their configuration. My suggestion, set the CD-R as master on the secondary IDE controller and the DVD combo as slave on the same cable.

OEM computers usually don't have a very generous power supply. I get scared adding any hardware over and above what was supplied Look at the label on the power supply. Probably disconnecting the extra optical drive and other added hardware would tell you when you tested the video files (but damage may have already been done )

Matt