A lot of people were looking for N1996 board drivers, thinking that N1996 is the model number for their MSI products, such as MSI motherboards, optical drives, VGA cards and etc.

Well, that is not the model number because it is not possible that alot of products sharing the same model number, right?


Then some one on forums mistakenly saying that N1996 is MSI FCC identifier printed on all MSI boards/optical drives/VGA cards, which is NOT TRUE as well. To know what N1996 means to your MSI products, see below for the proof:

According to MSI official website, A C-Tick mark (see above) may also appear on MSI products that are required to comply with Australian electromagnetic compatibility requirements and radio-communications standards.

It signifies that the product may be legally sold in Australia. Now it requires EMC compliance must be marked with the C-tick logo and ACA supplier code number.ACA supplier code for MSI is N1996. The supplier (in this case is MSI) is responsible for holding a Compliance Folder that contains compliant test reports and a Declaration of Conformity.

This is more about ACA supplier code. According to ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority), Supplier Code Number means the number issued to a person by ACA or ACMA upon application for registration to use the compliance marks (A-Tick or C-Tick).

So now you know that N1996 is the FCC identifier code for MSI products. There is no way to identify the correct model number by just referring to N1996 alone. To find the exact MSI drivers, you need to find out the correct MSI model numbers, for example here are few of the correct MSI model numbers/codes, hope you can see the pattern here:

K9N4 Ultra-F
K8M890M2-V
G965M-FIR
NX7600GS-TD256
S300-008US
MP54GBT3

Malo objasnjenje za n1996 !