oogYBA wrote on 2026-02-20, 22:20:

Here you go, hopefully it's readable.

The sound chip is near lower left corner, right above the big Winbond chip, next to the CD audio connector, below the small square Realtek chip you have shown photo of.

Ydee wrote on 2026-02-22, 07:49:

oogYBA wrote on 2026-02-22, 01:27:

NeoG_ wrote on 2026-02-21, 09:31:

I wonder if there is no ALC655 on the board where did that information come from, AI hallucination?

When I was looking on my motherboard, I saw a few small parts with the Realtek logo on them. I did some google searches and found stuff mentioning ALC650 and ALC655 and, being dumb, I automatically assumed that my motherboard used one of those two

For every motherboards, which I have, I try download user manual first, if it is possible - it is very useful.

Thanks for the heads up!

onethirdxcubed wrote on 2026-02-21, 20:39:

One of the major deficiencies of AC97 is that the codec cannot report a Plug & Play device ID with no drivers installed. This was fixed in HD Audio by splitting the codec and controller drivers apart and providing a class driver for the controller with the OS. But this was never back ported to Win98.

I wasn't aware of that.... you learn something new every day on Vogons....

BTW since the Analog Devices AD1980 (SoundMAX) is just the AC'97 audio codec and the AC'97 audio controller is integrated into the VIA southbridge VT8237 you can take drivers from Analog Devices or you take the VIA Vinyl AC'97 v7.00b drivers (the latter is available from my VIA drivers page -> https://soggi.org/drivers/via.htm).

kind regards
soggi