Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:


(He'd probably have to open up the laptop to find that, which is usually
a tedious process. Unless you can point him at a utility that will
analyse/interrogate peripheral chips electronically.)

Device Manager :
Sound,video,and game controllers
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Properties
Details
Device Instance ID
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

11d4 Analog Devices
(table incomplete)

*******

An example of a Sigmatel...

FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_76A0

8384 SigmaTel
(no table at all)

It's not looking like that pci.ids file is going to help.

Paul

I don't see SoundMAX in here, although surprisingly, when I ran a registry
cleaner just to check on things, there is an invalid reference to the Start
Menu folder SoundMAX, so maybe that was uninstalled long ago (before I got
this).

Instead, under Device Manager, I have these relevant entries:
Device Manager
Sound, video and game controllers
Audio Codecs
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC (see note below)
Legacy Audio Drivers

Under the IDT codec line above, I find:
Properties
Details
HDAAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_111D&DEV_76B2&SUBSYS_1028024F &REV(etc)

Strange, isn't it. Maybe I should go look up some stuff on SoundMAX.