Juhan Leemet wrote on Tuesday, November 20, 2001 00:57 EST (GMT+5):
>
> On Sunday 18 November 2001 13:49, Arthur Hagen wrote:
> >
> > The HP Pavilion 8670C came with a Conexant/Rockwell Riptide SoftK56
> > winmodem/soundcard combination card, slightly modified for
> HP by bean
> > counters.
>
> I wonder if it is anything like my HP Pavillion 8754C, which
> seemed to have a
> Winmodem card (which I ripped out, yuck!), but seems to also
> have and use an
> internal Intel 810 integrated chipset (with AC97 codec) on
> the motherboard,
> which can actually produce sound (still working! without
> modem card).
Nope, the 8670C is actually fairly decent in that it has a barebones ASUS
motherboard without audio/video/modem on it - that's the reason why I bought
mine back when. I now have upgraded every single part except the DVD drive,
so I can't really say I have this computer anymore :-)
The first thing to change was the Conexant modem/soundcard combination card,
which doesn't work well even under Windows. I'd also recommend changing the
RAM - it originally comes with PC100 RAM, which slows down the Northbridge
to 100MHz, even though the system has a PIII600EB running at 133MHz CPU bus
speed. Simply switching the RAM from PC100 to PC133 makes this oddball
machine some 10-15% faster.
Anyhow, there's little chance of ever getting the audio part on the 8670C to
work with alsa - there's OSS Riptide drivers for $35, but for that price you
can pick up a SB16 card and two six-packs of beer.
Regards,
--
*Art
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