PGA Tour - anyone a software/hardware expert?

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I have a PGA Tour Challenge addition. As anyone who's looked inside one should know, it has a PC inside it. When I got it, the motherboard was dead. I had an older PC lying around (who doesn't?) so I swapped the HD, video card, etc from the old PC to this other PC, and the game is running. The only problem is that this PC I had doesn't have onboard sound, so I don't have a jack to plug the sound cord into (although I could put a cheap soundblaster PCI card in it).

When watching the game run in attract mode (I am rebuilding the trackball so I haven't played it yet), the videos sometimes seem to "catch" or have a little hiccup in their running. I'm wondering it it's due to the old slow processor in it? The machine is running either Win2k, WinNT, or WinXp, if you need to know that.

Anyway, I have a newer MB with faster CPU sitting here that I could throw in (and it has it's own onboard sound), but I'm wondering if I need to put in the video card (since the onboard video is probably much better than the older video card) or whether I need to worry about chipset drivers or such (since I don't know what the software will do or how I might mess it up if I try to install stuff on the HD).

Anyone ever messed with the hardware on these who may have a clue?
 
Thanks for all the help! :rolleyes:

I swapped out the MB for one I had, and couldn't get video, so I swapped in another MB I had, and it running great now with sound!
 
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