Thanks for that Jeff,
It was in fact the battery that was down well under the 3v, so replaced that
and the F1 nag went away. It did then as you say want to set things to the
default settings, which I allowed it to do.
Have had trouble with onboard sound in the past with another M\Bd and did
what you said and installed a card. May have to do that with this one as
well.
Thanks again for your help

"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
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To get sound working correctly you need to install the correct W98 drivers
for your hardware. The correct drivers should be available for download,
but you need to identify the hardware that is installed. You can do this
with several utilities that are available, or by searching using model
number, manufacturer name or other identifying information on the
motherboard.

Alternatively, you could disable on-board sound devices and install a
plug-in sound card with its own drivers.

To determine why you are required to press F1 to complete start up you
need to post the rest of the message - that part that appears just before
the instruction to press F1. It could be that the battery is bad, or
there could be some other error that the BIOS is detecting at this time,
such as faulty hardware. If the battery is bad the BIOS usually sets
everything to default values before asking if you want to proceed. If the
default is leaving the sound hardware disabled then that might explain the
yellow mark in Device Manager.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"KG" wrote in message
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Two questions to answer please.
I don't have the original M\Bd CD and cannot get the onboard sound to go.
In
control Panel they are still carry the yellow mark and I have no sound.
Have
tried many ways to get a driver to work from the W98 disk and a few
others I
have but no luck. It did originally have XP installed and was working.
The other question, why do I have to now press F1 to continue during the
boot up?
It shows the drives memory and cd ok and then stops asking me to press F1
to
resume.
Is that maybe a flat battery on the M\Bd? I think the bios would drop out
if
that was the case?
Any help please.