Download Driver For VIA AC’97 5.20c

By Ameen Akbar On May 31, 2004

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On VIA Arena Anonymous: 66352 has found new drivers for the VIA motherboards with an AC97 or Six-TRACchip on board. The update is equipped with jersey number 5.20c and can be downloaded via this link be downloaded. The release notes list the southbridges that can use version 5.20c:

These drivers are for all Microsoft Operating systems. Microsoft no longer provides driver certification for Win95/98/98SE/NT, however the driver below still supports these operating systems – but there is no certification logo for these operating systems in the driver.

This driver supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound, including VT8231/VT82C686A/VT82C686B, VT8233/VT8233A/VT8233C/VT8235/VT8237.

This driver supports the VIA Six-TRAC (VT1616 Codec)

This driver supports DOS sound for VIA VT82C686A/VT82C686B/VT8231 southbridges only. The VIAAUDIO.COM file mentioned in the Readme concerning DOS sound can be obtained from this old audio driver package. It is no longer supplied in the Vinyl_AudioCodec driver package.

This combination driver was first published on 24 June 2002. Prior to 24 June 2002, there was driver 74mu170a for VT8233/VT8233A/VT8233C and driver 68MU220b for VT686A, 686B & VT8321. The “combo” driver combined those two drivers into the one package and adds support for the new VT8235 southbridge. In addition, further improvements have been made in subsequent releases and the driver package is now called Vinyl_AudioCodec. Please refer to the file under “installation instructions” in the table below for further information. Package version v3.50b released on April 23, 2003 was the first version to include Sensaura technology for the VIA Six-TRAC (VT1616 Codec).

The ComboAudio driver also supports OS/2. Please read the ReadMe.txt for further information.

Version number	5.20c
Operating systems	Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
Website	VIA Arena
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File size	3.32MB
License type	Freeware