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Dimension 4600 C-Media sound card drivers

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First post, by drew2020

Posted on 2022-09-25, 21:18

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Have a Dell Dimension 4600 with what looks like C-Media FT8738-4.08E sound card. Went to the Dell website and they don't have a C-Media driver. Instead, they have Creative Audigy 2 drivers.
Tried locating drivers but so far no luck and I can't find the Dell CD anymore.
Anyone know where I can get the drivers?

thx

Reply 1 of 4, by chinny22

Posted on 2022-09-27, 07:02

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Is this the onboard sound? if so Dell seems to think its a "Analog Devices ADI 198x"
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drive … =dimension-4600

If it's a add on card maybe it's not an original Dell part, Installing something like XP and doing a search of the Harwdware ID may point you in the right direction

Reply 2 of 4, by drew2020

Posted on 2022-10-02, 02:20

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The sound card turned out to be C-Media CMI8738 chip.

Reply 3 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2022-10-02, 04:07

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Have you tried these: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/c-media-cmi8738.html

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 4 of 4, by drew2020

Posted on 2022-12-05, 11:33

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No. I didn't use Philscomputerlab drivers. Don't recall where I got them from.

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