http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-multi … ia/16snd_2.html scroll the page down to Shuttle, and if you see some card that looks familiar, then report back and I may be able to find more stuff about it 😀

Thanks! 😀 for some reason i didn't see the soundcard section of stason.
I'm positive it was the Hot-247. Still don't see much for stats on it except that it won't work for win2k or higher.
Still, I remember it being a good soundcard back when we first got it... kinda miss it.

Well, it should be pretty easy to replace it if you miss it. It's pretty much a generic Opti reference design card, looks to use either the 931 or 933 chipset (only difference between the two chips being that the latter has '3D sound' that nobody ever used anyway). Those sorts of cards are a dime a dozen on eBay, just search "opti ISA" and you're bound to turn up a few that are nearly identical to the one you had.

I must confess, I was more interested in the box and software than the card alone... now that I know it was just a reference card that I'll probably never be able to replace, I might as well just get another awe64 or something.
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Edit: I couldn't find any of them for $0.00.83 so I now assume that you were using the idiom to make a point about cost.

I am reminded of the story of a man that traveled the world looking for one particular gem (black diamond if i recall) and eventually died while still searching.
Later the gem he was looking for was discovered, literally in his back yard.
Anyway, my point is that I discovered this exact soundcard (identical to the one I had given to a friend) sitting in a 486 that I hadn't examined in some time... now to find the box and contents.