the continuing saga of m747
Have a different ISA slot to try? Can you get sound in DOS (yes, that's probably a hassle to set up, but at least it'll tell you if it's something with the board/card or some Windows problem).
I'm not about to go look, but I'm sure I've worked on that board before... I'm almost positive that's an "everything is on the board" setup, isn't it?
PC Chips is lowest-common-denominator kit. Not good stuff. Usually their manual is a single gatefold sheet with a diagram of the board, some jumper settings (usually not correct), and a few sentences of poorly-translated english. Little wonder you're not getting anywhere.
First thing to do with your board is trick it in to using 100MHz bus like it's supposed to. After that I'd suggest installing Windows whatever with nothing installed or enabled but a video card, disk controllers and I/O ports. Turn off USB and sound, if you can (some of the PC Chips boards don't let you). Pull any NICs or Modems you have, too.
If you don't want to do a whole-hog reinstall, try setting up a new, empty hardware profile (My Computer > Properties > Hardware Profiles > Copy). When Windows starts, it'll ask which profile to use, Choose "none of the above" and it'll re-detect EVERYTHING (at this point, we're hoping just your video card and I/O ports).
Check Device manager, make sure everything to that point is detected OK, no conflicts, proper drivers - particularly for the motherboard chipset - loaded, etc.
Add in your soundcard.
Any sound?
Your card is of a "plug and play" ISA variety? Or, at least, something that has manual settings in a sane configuration?
At that point I might try reserving an IRQ for the card in the BIOS, or maybe turning off "Plug and Play OS Installed: yes" and manually assigning everything, then seeing if Windows is willing to behave better.
Or maybe I'd chuck the board. PC Chips isn't exactly a paragon of reliability.
Hey, I've got a half-dozen or so Celeron 300As + motherboards sitting here unused. All of 'em work, too.