


This means the EEPROM chip that stores the firmware has failed, or become unreadable for some reason (Power spike? Poor quality EEPROM with bad data retention? Cosmic rays/radiation? Tin whiskers? I don't know), and the USB chip has reverted to its generic default program. (You can prove this by plugging it into a different computer, especially one with a different OS, and it will still identify as the wrong name.) If you search for these names, you'll see that products by a bunch of different companies are affected. When a device identifies as "USB Advanced Audio Device" or "UAC3556B" or "UAC3576B", this is not a driver issue it's a firmware/hardware issue.
