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Jun 2008
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New SoundMax® BlackHawk drivers available, SoundMax® Basic drivers to follow soon

As expected, Sonic Focus has made new SoundMax® BlackHawk drivers available for both x86 and x86-64 architectures. The newer drivers, versioned at 4.1, resolve all outstanding issues and can be downloaded directly from Sonic Focus’ support page. I expect ASUS, everybody’s favorite motherboard manufacturer, to catch up in about a year’s time.

The following hardware IDs fall under the SoundMax® BlackHawk SKU:

HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829C
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043829B
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_989B&SUBSYS_10438311
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_989B&SUBSYS_10438334

The following hardware IDs fall under the SoundMax® Basic SKU
(not supported in this driver set, wait for the basic drivers):

HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_17C02017
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10431153
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_103C30AF
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104313A3
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10431443
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_158490A0
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10431213
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1043818F
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104381B3
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104381B1
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1043817F
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104381BD
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104381C1
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1170FFE0
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104312F2
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10431302
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104312B3
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_17AA2066
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_14C00012
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1981&SUBSYS_10190E70
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_104381F2
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_104381E1
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_12900002
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_10438238
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_10710153
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_10711159
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_1071D174
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043821F
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043827B
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_1043822D
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_104381F6
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_10438238
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_10438266
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_10431495
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_10438241
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_10438241
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_8086D603
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1988&SUBSYS_10438668
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104381E3
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10198668
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_103C3024
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1458A000
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1940A002
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_161F2052
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10191986
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_105B0CCB
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10710152
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10710159
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10710171
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10710172
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_104313F3
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_1631C022
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1986&SUBSYS_10431463
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1984&SUBSYS_1179FF10
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1984&SUBSYS_1179FF13
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1884&SUBSYS_1179FF10
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1884&SUBSYS_1179FF13
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1984&SUBSYS_1025011A
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1984&SUBSYS_103C2802
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA100C
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA100D
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA100E
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA100F
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA1010
HDAUDIOFUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1983&SUBSYS_17AA1012

  • Frank Loizzi

    How long is “soon” for AnalogDevices/Sonic Focus? It’s now a long time the drivers are buggy and eating memory like ambrosia. People with 1986 chipset are the cheap customers for this guys? Every day a new driver for 1988 customers, nothing for 1986. Next time I will look for a Realtek sound chip. This drivers are refreshed quite on regular basis. Not this 6 month support nightmare a’la AD/SF…

  • Rafael

    @Frank: Are you using that older chipset on Windows Vista? Have you confirmed this leaking issue exists in that driver set too? Let me know and I’ll run this up the chain in a heartbeat.

  • Frank Loizzi

    Yes I’m using the 1986 chipset. Same issues with this drivers. My highest handles count was 1800000 for audiodg.exe. :(

  • dale

    thanks

  • TC

    Thank you for posting this info.

  • Frank Loizzi

    It seems there is no solution yet? That was my last Asus mainboard and definitely my last Analog Devices device.