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First post, by bjwil1991

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I went on my thrift store adventures 2 days ago (Mar. 24th) and found a box that said Sound Blaster PCI128 (which is what I thought was in there) for $12.99 + tax. Once I looked inside, I saw not one but two ESS AudioDrive ISA Sound Cards with a 56K Modem manual, free 100 hrs for AOL and CompuServe, and a driver's CD for one of the ESS AudioDrive cards.

Specs of the two cards:

First one:

Acer/SerTek S521 non-PNP
Jumpers for setting the IRQ/DMA/MIDI*/SB**/Base/CD-ROM***/Joystick
ESS AudioDrive ES1688f FM Synthesizer
40-pin IDE CD-ROM ATAPI
26-pin WaveTable header
Unknown header (J4)? <-- can't find any documentation
2x 4-pin CD-ROM Audio connectors (old style and newer style)

* SB-MIDI or MPU-401
** Sound Blaster 2.01 or Sound Blaster Pro 3.01
*** Useful for systems that have the single channel IDE or for broken secondary IDE on the motherboard

Second one:

AW26 P/N: MBP-000078 <-- I have no idea what the make is.?
ESS AudioDrive ES1869f
26-pin WaveTable header

For the price I paid, that's not bad at all. What are your thoughts? Picture(s) to follow soon.

Edit: found the first one with more info. It's an Acer brand card, according to the FCC ID.

Last edited by bjwil1991 on 2018-03-26, 18:47. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 2, by derSammler

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ES1688 and ES1869 are great sound chips. If the rest of the sound card design isn't crap, you'll have some very nice and compatible cards. I'm using a ES1688 in one of my 286 and a ES1869 in one of my 486 retro PCs as well and they never failed on me.

Reply 2 of 2, by bjwil1991

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FCC ID for the ES1869f: KWX-SC202-W: FIC (Formosa Industrial Computing Inc)

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FCC ID for the ES1668f: L6NS521: Acer/Sertek

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Googled the cards using luck and old eBay listing. I'll post pics of mine later on. Note: the eBay one I searched ended months ago, so this is not an active auction.

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