Hi All,
This post is only for show you the Genius Sound Maker 16IE ISA slot sound card, as there is not much information about it on the internet. You can comment of course.
This one is manufactured in april of 1996.
Regards,
Bdtbr
There are no jumper instructions, which is really bad.
Cyrix 486DLC-40, 386-VC-H, 16MB, GD5422, ES1868F
Intel 486DX4-100EW, VI15G, 16MB, WD90C33, ES1868F
AMD5x86-133, HIPPO-15, 32MB, S3 Vison 964, ES1868F
K6-3+ 500, T2P4, 128MB, Millennium II, Voodoo 2 12MB, SoundBlaster AWE32
zwrr wrote on 2023-04-21, 03:04:There are no jumper instructions, which is really bad.
Irritating but common. Looks like this is probably them: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-mult … BSOUND-503.html
With thanks to this thread: Re: ESS 1688F sound card
bdtbr wrote on 2023-04-20, 17:40:Hi All,
This post is only for show you the Genius Sound Maker 16IE ISA slot sound card, as there is not much information about it on the internet. You can comment of course.
This one is manufactured in april of 1996.
Does your box have any other contents (disks, manual)? Always nice to get that stuff along with box photos up onto archive.org.
The ES1688 (the non-PNP version - same as the OP's) is one of my favorite sound cards. Excellent compatibility and sound quality!
1 x PLCC-68 / 2 x PGA132 / 5 x Skt 3 / 9 x Skt 7 / 12 x SS7 / 1 x Skt 8 / 14 x Slot 1 / 5 x Slot A
5 x Skt 370 / 8 x Skt A / 2 x Skt 478 / 2 x Skt 754 / 3 x Skt 939 / 7 x LGA775 / 1 x LGA1155
Current PC: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Backup PC: Core i7 7700k
That's a nice card - the best AudioDrive I personally came across back in my ESS testing days:
Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card
It's made by Labway, who seem to have done quite a few quality low-cost cards with various chipsets.
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
Does your box have any other contents (disks, manual)? Always nice to get that stuff along with box photos up onto archive.org.
Yes, I still have the box, but unfortunately I threw out the manual and the floppy somewhere about 2005-2010. The content of the floppy was the ESS VxD driver for Win3.1 and Win9x, and the AudioDrive software. I purchased this card in 1996. This card was my only ISA soundcard, followed by a PCI Sound Blaster. It was part of a 2x86 12mhz, 40MB HDD, 1MB RAM + TVGA, later with a 4x Sony CD-ROM drive. 😀 Now I plan to install this card into my retro PII 400Mhz config for Win98SE.
Yesterday I got this as a free gift with videocard from an ebay seller. The floppy disk with the drivers is original and in perfectly readable condition.
The card had a problem with shorted traces on its back in a place with protective solder mask rubbed off due to someone's unsuccessful attempt to tin them. Some solder wick and a tiny drop of fresh green UV light curing solder mask - pretty easy repair and now the soundcard works again as expected.
There are some jumpers to configure IRQ, DMA, I/O address, but is there possibility to bypass its own Philips TDA1517 amplifier (its pretty "lo-fi" sounding to me) like on some newer ES1868/9 based cards?
P.S. Here it is image file from original floppy disk with drivers:
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analog_programmer wrote on 2023-08-11, 07:18:Here it is image file from original floppy disk with drivers
Wow, Thank you for your post and disk image. 😀
