USB newest Virtual 5.1 Channel Audio Sound Card Adapter HELP!

[BrandonAldridge]

I bought a USB newest Virtual 5.1 Channel Audio Sound Card Adapter
from EBAY. My Windows XP 2002 OS Does not recognize the hardware and
I cant find drivers. Can someone help????

 

[Paul]

I bought a USB newest Virtual 5.1 Channel Audio Sound Card Adapter
from EBAY. My Windows XP 2002 OS Does not recognize the hardware and
I cant find drivers. Can someone help????

You can download a copy of "UVCView" from this Microsoft page:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/vidcap/UVCViewdwn.mspx

Look for Vendor/Product/bcdDevice hex strings. This example is
for my mouse. If you plug in your USB audio device, you may
be able to identify the maker of the main chip inside via the
hexidecimal strings.

*******
---===>Device Information<===---
English product name: "USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
....
idVendor: 0x046D = Logitech Inc.
idProduct: 0xC01A
bcdDevice: 0x1900
iManufacturer: 0x01
English (United States) "Logitech"
iProduct: 0x02
English (United States) "USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
iSerialNumber: 0x00
bNumConfigurations: 0x01
*******

Paul

 

[BrandonAldridge]

It looks like there is no device description.... Is the USB Device
good?

===>Device Descriptor<===
bLength: 0x12
bDescriptorType: 0x01
bcdUSB: 0x0110
bDeviceClass: 0x00 -> This is an Interface Class
Defined Device
bDeviceSubClass: 0x00
bDeviceProtocol: 0x00
bMaxPacketSize0: 0x08 = (8) Bytes
idVendor:
0x1130idProduct: 0xF211
bcdDevice: 0x010B
iManufacturer: 0x00
iProduct: 0x02
*!*ERROR: no String Descriptor for index 2!
iSerialNumber: 0x00
bNumConfigurations: 0x01

 

[Paul]

It looks like there is no device description.... Is the USB Device
good?

===>Device Descriptor<===
bLength: 0x12
bDescriptorType: 0x01
bcdUSB: 0x0110
bDeviceClass: 0x00 -> This is an Interface Class
Defined Device
bDeviceSubClass: 0x00
bDeviceProtocol: 0x00
bMaxPacketSize0: 0x08 = (8) Bytes
idVendor:
0x1130idProduct: 0xF211
bcdDevice: 0x010B
iManufacturer: 0x00
iProduct: 0x02
*!*ERROR: no String Descriptor for index 2!
iSerialNumber: 0x00
bNumConfigurations: 0x01

While the Vendor matches with "TenX", TenX is a contract design
house of some sort. My guess would be, it could be a Cmedia device,
with EEPROM override. Some devices allow changing enumeration info,
if a serial EEPROM is connected to the side of it. (Opening the
thing and examining the design, would tell you more. You could even
photograph it, and put the photo on a free image hosting site.)

This is an example of a square (PLCC) packaged USB audio chip,
which has a serial EEPROM interface. If you connect a 24C02 to
the chip, you could store that 0x1130 and 0xF211 info in it.
Custom enumeration forces the user to use the driver provided on
the CDROM.

http://www.cmedia.com.tw/files/doc/USB/CM108 DataSheet v1.6.pdf

The 0x1130 number maps to "TenX" here, but they might be victims
in all of this, and have nothing to do with it.

http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

You can see people experimenting with your gadget here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-linux/message/17295

The product here, is pictured with a driver CD. My guess would be,
that the "5.1" feature is achieved via software, and has nothing to
do with the hardware. In hardware, it would be a simple stereo
headphone/microphone chip. The company name on the packaging is
"Lead Tide", an apt name for an endless stream of products
headed for the landfill...

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PD552&cat=SND
http://www.geeks.com/largePic_All.asp?InvtId=PD552&Pic=PD552-box.jpg

There is another "Lead Tide" product here. They seem to like to make
USB dongles of various sorts, whoever they are.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cu...98-2448647?ie=UTF8&s=wireless&index=1#gallery

Paul