VOGONS


First post, by teh_Foxx0rz

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I recently bought this card: https://www.picclickimg.com/mV4AAOSwhXtiaisj/ … S-PDIF-PCI.webp and thought I'd found the right drivers, but when it arrived they installed, but didn't seem to work. I'd get "error:80C18002: No acknowledgement from I2C slave", so I presume it wasn't for this version of the hardware, and sure enough, looking at the INF file for it, it seemed to be for the Cinemaster S versions.

But when looking for specifically the Cinemaster C 1.2 drivers and software, they appear to be poorly archived. A lot of driver aggregate sites that just provide a download to their own sketchy "autoupdate" .exe, or simply just have the text of the filename and no actual download. Or they seemed legitimate, but just led to dead links. I've also checked the VOGONS driver library.
I did find one download that worked and looked promising, but for some reason the driver installation won't continue when pressing "Finish" (it just acts like I didn't press it). Looking in the INF file for that, it makes mention of Windows 98 rather than Windows 95, so perhaps that was the problem there.

Does anyone have drivers for this card that they could share? Or even better, the full install CD? Ideally, for Windows 95; I could see mentions for that in my searches, and appears to be the version used in the manual.
It wasn't expensive so I thought it'd be fun to play around with getting my Pentium MMX system DVD-capable, but drivers are always the bane of old hardware exploration.

Many thanks.

Reply 1 of 4, by teh_Foxx0rz

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I asked the seller, but unfortunately he didn't have them either. There was a link in the description though, which is dead but he said was still working a few months ago when he listed it: http://www.pennskog.com/cinemaster/hardware.htm

Reply 2 of 4, by NJRoadfan

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http://home.icequake.net/~nemesis/linuxlaptop … r/downloads.htm

Dell preinstalled this card in alot of their machines, so likely buried on the drivers download of late 90s Dimension XPS desktop systems.

Reply 3 of 4, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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teh_Foxx0rz wrote on 2023-06-18, 00:23:

I asked the seller, but unfortunately he didn't have them either. There was a link in the description though, which is dead but he said was still working a few months ago when he listed it: http://www.pennskog.com/cinemaster/hardware.htm

The files from this url are still available, but on the archive.org version (easiest to use the links marked as mirror) https://web.archive.org/web/20220810013313/ht … r/downloads.htm

Reply 4 of 4, by teh_Foxx0rz

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Oh, I neglected to get back about this; I was sure I'd replied.

The seller ended up coming back with those same archived drivers, and yes, they worked! Thank you all very much. It's great to have this working again, as niche of a use as it is.