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First post, by jvdheyde

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Hi,

In my old hardware archive I found an ISA Sound Card. I have a picture of it attached.
Can somebody identify the card for me because I want to use it in an old vintage computer setup.
Windows Me is running on that system.
Windows Me identifies the card as "Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32 or compatible (WDM)"
But the card does not work properly, it produces no sound.

The sound card has no brand name and is only labeled with the name "SOUND CARD"
It looks to me that it's a kind of Sound Blaster clone

It has a ISA slot, the chip in the middle is labeled "5A12".
The chip in the left top corner is not labeled at all.
There are jumpers for the IO address (22X, 24X), the interrupt (2, 3, 5, 7), DRQ (1, 3), DACK (1,3) and a jumper for mono, stereo selection.
There is also a jumper labeled GS. I don't know the function of it.

My question:
- can somebody identify the sound board.
- are there working Windows Me drivers available.

Thanks in advance.

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Reply 2 of 8, by peklop

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hmmm, a sound card named "Sound Card".

SB16/AWE32 drivers can t work because are for 16bit card with OPL3
You can try drivers for Sound Blasterb 1.0 or 2.0 8bit card. I don t know if are included in WinME. If no, try extract VxD (not WDM) drivers from Windows 98 or Windows 95.

Card fom rein_eins link is stereo and with two OPL2-clone chips. It can be compatible with Sound Blaster Pro 1 (not Pro2) stereo card. But your card missing second chip.

Reply 4 of 8, by peklop

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No, it isn´t typical SB clone. Typical clones are clones of 8bit SB 2.0 with one OPL2 or of 8bit stereo with one OPL3.
This clone is designed as 2x OPL2 stereo card like SB Pro 1. But into short XT-BUS slot.

Reply 7 of 8, by peklop

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It is wrong, there are big difference between Sound Zapper and SB16.
SB16 vs. zapper:
16 bit CD-quality sound - 16bit/44100/stereo vs. 8it/???/stereo (or maybe mono with only one chip)
16bit ISA slot vs. 8bit slot - card must use only low DMA, not high DMA channel
1x OPL3 music FM chip vs. 1x (or 2x if second inserted) older OPL2
Try detect what Sound Blaster "DSP" version is cloned.

Imho is no chance to run card as SB16 under Win9x. But it might work as original 8bit mono Sound Blaster.