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soundcard

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:08 am
by punker14
We have a problem here at home, our motherboard has an on-board soundcard but we can't find any good drivers.
So if anyone can help me, I did that bios wizard if that is a help for you.

BIOS Manufacturer : American Megatrends
BIOS ID : 62-0529-001131-00101111-040201-VIA_P6
BIOS Date : 05/29/02
BIOS OEM Signon :
BIOS ROM Size : 256K
Chipset : VIA 82C3128 rev 1
Super I/O Chip : Known super I/O chip is not found

Re: soundcard

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:45 am
by zonxar
That BIOS ID is used for a couple of boards by the looks of it:

ECS P4VXASD2
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PcChips M925LR
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Either of these look like your motherboard, and what is your operating system?

:)

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:28 am
by punker14
I don't actually know which one it is, I don't have the time to look right now, but if it is one of those two it must be the first one I think.

I use Windows XP Pro

I'll be back on sunday so until then I can't give you more information.

Re: soundcard

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:45 am
by zonxar
There are several possibilities, 3 of which are shown here:

http://www.motherboards.org/forums/view ... ight=viap6

Might help narrow things down a bit.

:)

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:11 pm
by Denniss
Pcchips/ECS either use the chipset integrated sound - VIA AC97 - or CMedia AC97 .
Older boards may use Realtek AC97 Sound

www.viarena.com -> Vinyl Audio
www.cmedia.com.tw -> 9738/9739 -> latest driver should be listet at 9761 audio ( uses the same driver)
www.realtek.com.tw -> ALC650 driver

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:51 pm
by punker14
Thank you very much both, the problem is solved now :)

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:04 pm
by Ritchie
I was going to say you can sometimes determine on-board audio by looking at chips on the mainboard, but congratulations on solving it.

Out of curiousity, what was the board and what was the audio driver required?

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:11 pm
by punker14
Looking on the motherboard is easier said than done, the case isn't very easy to open and when u get it open u can only open one side. I tried it before and it wasn't very easy to put it back together, so I didn't want to try that again.

Anyway, it was the VIA AC97. Still don't know what motherboard but so what, I have sound now :)