First post, by c0keb0ttle
Anyone know exactly which brand/manufacturer this is?
(The back of the card is completely uninteresting.)
Anyone know exactly which brand/manufacturer this is?
(The back of the card is completely uninteresting.)
Would it by any chance have a fcc Id number on the board. Would it be possible to post a picture of the back of the card?
This is the back of it:
It got the original Aureal Vortex (AU8820) so the Vortex 2 drivers won't work.
Yeah, it's a Vortex 1, that is obvious, but what brand or manufacturer? The AU8820 drivers from Vogons archive works great with it in Windows 98, so I just want to know to satisfy my curiosity.
Based on the presented information, it appears to be a Multiwave Innovation "AudioWave PCI DigitalSound".
("AW PCI DIGITAL SOUND CARD" (P/N: MW50-AUDP22-211), Multiwave Innovation Pte. Ltd)
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Stiletto
Thanks Stiletto!
I found the press release with the announcement from 1997! 😁
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aurea … n-77451607.html
No problem.
How I did that: I used the string "AW PCI DIGITAL SOUND CARD" (with quotes) for food for Google, and then looked into the few interesting pages that came up, which included Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility List for Win9x and NT 4.0.
There's a chance, if you'd plugged it into a box running Windows XP or something, that you could have read the PCI ID string using Windows or using a utility, and that also could have led to the card's manufacturer. (Only works on PCI and newer technologies, for the most part). But it could just have easily reported back a generic Aureal Vortex card.
The website (www.multiwave.com) has been partially preserved by the Internet Archive.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto