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Driver for Integrated sound on an Intel D815EEA Motherboard

dbellue1 wrote on 2025-08-21, 03:50:

Hey Vogons
Does anyone know about this sound device on an Intel Motherboard. It is a Analog Devices AD1885, but when I try to install drivers in windows 98 the device manager does not like them. I have tried 2 different drivers so far. I guess I need to find out exactly what this is so I can try and install drivers that windows 98 likes.
Thank you

Please explain what your issue is. The screenshot does not show any issues. This is not the device manager, in which any red X or yellow exclamation point denotes a problem. You are showing the screenshot of a hardware information program that displays to you which optional features of an AC97 sound solution are available on your system. Most of the optional features are not supported, which is perfectly OK for an entry-level sound system. At least, you get "variable rate audio", which is the most important feature to have. If you were missing that feature, the operating system would need to resample every sound to 48000Hz, the "standard" AC97 sample rate.

You don't get multi-channel audio (5.1 and stuff like that), you don't have seperate recording channels for line-in and microphone, you don't have a digital (S/P-DIF) output, you have no hardware tone control, but for normal stereo game sound, your screenshot looks perfect. The most important point is that the audio adapter and the AC97 codec are properly indicated, which means that the driver is working!

Not necessarily. See the first reply in the link above.

Tldr: updates essential.

Hey, here is a screen shot of the of the device manager properties for the device. Thanks.

When I click on update driver and lead it to the folder where the drivers are I get a message that windows was unable to locate the software for this device. Thanks.

regedit:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{a3a00660-e559-11d3-9741-00500483cae0}

exists?

The thread linked by myne contained the hint that the update "242937usa8.exe" needs to be installed for the driver to work. That update is actually on vogonsdrivers, see https://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2209 - please don't mind that it says "nForce" in the title. This is a update for the generic sound infrastructure in Windows 98SE, which is also used with other sound drivers.

Did you already install this update?

Hey myne
Yes.

Hey mkarcher
Yes I have, many times. I just downloaded that file and installed it and nothing has changed, same as above pictures. I have contacted the business that sold me the system on Ebay and asked if he could work his magic, since when I bought it, it was in perfect condition. There were no issues of any kind. If I need to I will ship the system back to him and let him work his magic. He obviously has system utility programs I don't have access to.
Thank you guys, you are true brothers in the spirit of 90's computer passion.

dbellue1 wrote on Yesterday, 00:05:

Hey mkarcher
Yes I have, many times. I just downloaded that file and installed it and nothing has changed, same as above pictures. I have contacted the business that sold me the system on Ebay and asked if he could work his magic, since when I bought it, it was in perfect condition. There were no issues of any kind. If I need to I will ship the system back to him and let him work his magic. He obviously has system utility programs I don't have access to.
Thank you guys, you are true brothers in the spirit of 90's computer passion.

Oddly, Intel list 2 audio drivers for this board covering the same OSs - the one you already have which is the SoundMAX2 integrated audio driver ADI 1885 version 5.12.01.3012, and another one listed as Integrated audio driver ADI 1885 basic, version 5.12.01.3002, which you can find here.... http://ipfire.infania.net/sites/intel/Motherb … ers/982kadi.exe