Packard Bell iMedia 5064

[hooky]

I have just re-installed XP Pro onto my iMedia 5064, now when I shut it down it reboots itself, I have tried the PB Helpdesk and they just said it was a faulty motherboard, As it was working Ok before I installed XP I don't think it is the motherboard, more likely I have deleted a driver, I had no sound as well but I found a driver for that problem, PB wanted £50 for a restore disk.

 

Has anyone any ideas?

 

Les

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XP Pro wasn't standard build on that machine was it?

 

Do you have the original XP Pro or a borrowed/copied/downloaded version?

 

Download & install all of the drivers from the PB website, including chipset.

 

If it is still the same, try another wipe/reinstall.

 

TBH, it could be a motherboard fault on that age of machine. You can sometimes find old stock unused boards on ebay for £20 or less.

[hooky]

The COA on the machine was for XP Home, the XP Pro version I've just loaded was a licensed version from a new disc (SP2) and I then downloaded all the updates from the Microsoft website including SP3.

 

I had a look at the download section of the PB support site but it doesn't explain clearly the different files that can be downloaded, the sound file I used came from a disc that I down loaded 2/3 years age for a friend.

 

So you think that I should download all the drivers and hope for the best, I have also wiped the hard drive and done another installation

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Don't install them all and hope for the best - it will go wrong if you do that.

 

I looked at the legacy products, on the ftp site - is that where you went to?

 

You really need the model number of the board you have in it, and the video - ie is it onboard or an addin card. PB's used codenames for their boards, and often you can see it written on the board if you shine a torch in the side of your unit.

 

I think it is a SIS chipset, but its only a guess at the moment.

 

I also think the board is one of these

 

GA-8SIML rev 2.0, they called it Columbia or Columbia II

 

Can you confirm any of that please.

[hooky]

The mother board is a GA-8SIML rev 1.0 with onboard video

512mb ram

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Not far off then - I used to repair alot of these.

 

Board spec is here

 

UKT Support - Packard Bell Columbia Motherboard

 

The Packard Bell ftp server seems slow tonight and I can't get to see the files I saw earlier today.

 

Perhaps the easiest way to find the drivers is to go to the SIS website and use their identification tool.

 

Support >

[hooky]

Thanks for the info, have downloaded all the drivers relating to the motherboard, still no joy, think I might trade it in for a new one

[hooky]

Problem solved

 

I decided to scrap the PC so I removed all the bits I thought I might be able to use, ie power supply, memory, hard drive, CMOS battery, DVD rom, as I had some time on my hands I thought I'd reassemble the bits, lo and behold when I switched it on, the PC started to boot up and when I shut it down it shut itself down.

Must have been a bad connection on one of the leads, anyway it now seems OK

Thanks for your help