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Looking for early Intel 82801 audio driver

GiGaBiTe

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I recently acquired a small lot of older PIII systems and I'm currently trying to bring the worst one in the lot back from the grave.

The machine in question is a Gateway Essential 667 and it uses some custom OEM Intel Desktop Board called a WL810E or code named "Willow Springs 2".

Anyway, it has integrated audio, but I can't find a driver for it. The vendor string shows it's an Intel sound chip, but google has no idea what it is. I dug into the inf definitions on the earliest known Intel 82801BA/BAM audio driver and it starts at DEV_2440, which makes whatever this sound chip is predate it by a good bit.

PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_2415&SUBSYS9041107B&REV_02

I've seen some references to it being called an 82801AA, but no drivers for such a device.
 
The 82801AA is an AC'97 Audio Controller, which is inside the intel ICH southbridge. It looks like it's the 1st generation ICH, but the first handful of ICH chips were compatible as far as audio goes.
Maybe something here:

I once wrote a DOS wav file player for this hardware, so I only know it on a hardware level and not a windows level, but maybe this will get you closer!
 
The VIA Vinyl Audio driver from the above link worked. Only thing crappy about it is that it doesn't have a VxD driver for realmode DOS support, just a WDM driver.

That's probably an Intel decision though, they were on the warpath back then to kill off DOS support as quickly as possible at the end of the 90s. I'm sure every company that released an ICH driver was just rebranding the Intel driver and not trying to add features.
 
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