Old Sound Blaster C

I have an old sound blaster card and I am trying to find the driver for it, if it is still around. Not sure what the model number is but it has in white SC938 and on the chipset it has ES938S?? G458. It also has SB-Link on it, on the other side on a white upc lable it has the number SE639M3846, not sure if that is the S/N. I hope that is enough info on it and if anyone out there that can give me a hand with this, thx.

ES938S might (or might not be) be an ESS card, not Sound Blaster.
You didn't say what operating system you're using but the only drivers I could find were these:
http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/76/76692.htm
http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/57/57963.htm
http://www.bioticaindia.com/download.php?file=es938s?
http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm
http://www.softwaredriverdownload.com/ess_es938s_driver.html
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=76692&action=filfo
Message Edited by Adam_P on 08-23-2008 02:06 PMMessage Edited by Adam_P on 08-23-2008 02:09 PM

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