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I know it ain't healthy but this is how I keep my old CPUs. They were all working pulls.
I've also got few ES chips among them, including Conroe ES (The AMD killer).

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Now you need to find the boards to go with them :D

I have been cleaning up a rather grotty Abit AI7 ( Inel 478 865).

Works fantastic apart from the onboard realtek ALC658.

Installed the latest drivers from Realtek webby and jack sensing works bu I am getting horrid popping and clipping.

I am guessing latest generic realtek drivers are not so hot for this board. Hmm will have to have a play.

Such a shame nobody archived much of the Abit software/ original drivers.
 
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Now you need to find the boards to go with them :D

I have been cleaning up a rather grotty Abit AI7 ( Inel 478 865).

Works fantastic apart from the onboard realtek ALC658.

Installed the latest drivers from Realtek webby and jack sensing works bu I am getting horrid popping and clipping.

I am guessing latest generic realtek drivers are not so hot for this board. Hmm will have to have a play.

Such a shame nobody archived much of the Abit software/ original drivers.

I have a 20 gig file with the entire ABIT website, and it has all the bioses manuals etc of all boards that they have ever released (and software I think) :p
 
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I figured there would be many people with the files just offline.

Least I know who to pest when I cant find a bios :toast:

Edit.

After a bit of googling seems some nerdy types have made a ftp back up of it. Cant get onto it at work though.
 
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I have a 20 gig file with the entire ABIT website, and it has all the bioses manuals etc of all boards that they have ever released (and software I think) :p

I had that somewhere. Don't have any idea where now.
 
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I had that somewhere. Don't have any idea where now.

If you need the files let me know, but we must figure out a way to transfer such massive amount of data :D
 
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One on hwbot as well, will investigate and link up later.

DFI stuff is also difficult to get, may have a browse for that too.
 

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DFI stuff is also difficult to get, may have a browse for that too.

It would be great to have both DFI and Abit links posted in the original post. That would make it much easier for anyone searching for information, bios, or specific drivers and manuals for them boards. :toast:
 
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Whats your connection like, would a torrent work? I have a unlimited but moderate upload my end, would be happy to leave it for a while on my server.

http://forums.hexus.net/abit-care-hexus/244569-abit-ftp-backup-including-e0-updates.html

Torrent on that FTP site is of the whole 19GB. Works too seems to have a few good seeds.


Found this old article @ TPU from 2005-02-25.
DFI LanParty NF4 Bios & Tools

That's pretty handy, shame its not for the rest of DFI's boards, I couldn't find anything much for a X48 when I last meddled with it.
 
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Let me guess ... capacitor issues? I know there's a lot of Abit fans out there, and that's understandable but oh boy! When it comes to dead caps, Abit definitely takes the #1 place! At least their older models did, such as BE6-II.

Just curious, did yours tend to automatically switch itself on randomly? Mine would do so from time to time & then one day, while I was playing NFS3 Hot Pursuit suddenly locked out, the keyboard stopped working even though the actual game was still running in the background. And of course, when I rebooted the system it didn't want to boot up any longer :( Had EXACTLY the same problem on both BE6 & BE6-II, but I was able to save the MkII one, where the original (BE6) ended up in trash.

Nothing like any of that. Board looks mint, caps and all. My problem is chipset or clock generator related. Boards still runs. Just can no longer clock like a champ. I used to be able to do FSB's in the 170 range without a problem. Now the board will only do 130 max or it hardlocks.
CPU does not matter, nor does the ram. I've tried dozens of each. It will not even run a 133 bus CPU at stock settings. Less than 130 FSB I can run anything all day long though.

Too much extreme benching in it's lifetime I'm sure.
Going to re-cap it, but I don't have a lot of hope.
 
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Oh, OK... Then you didn't "kill" the board, it can still work for years & years :) Especially if you keep everything stock & under 130MHz...

I know this seems kinda obvious, especially since I know for the fact you're a professional, but have you tried flashing the BIOS and/or messing around with jumper settings? (if it has any, I forgot)
 
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Oh, OK... Then you didn't "kill" the board, it can still work for years & years :) Especially if you keep everything stock & under 130MHz...

I know this seems kinda obvious, especially since I know for the fact you're a professional, but have you tried flashing the BIOS and/or messing around with jumper settings? (if it has any, I forgot)

Yes, 4 different bios's.
Killed it for my application.
Keeping everything stock is not usually what I do. I'm a competitive bencher. I need the speed.
 
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Whats your connection like, would a torrent work? I have a unlimited but moderate upload my end, would be happy to leave it for a while on my server.

I have unlimited traffic too, 10mbit upload I think, I have never uploaded anything using torrent x) I will need some help!
 
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Yes, 4 different bios's.
Keeping everything stock is not usually what I do. I'm a competitive bencher. I need the speed.
Was just looking at the BE6-II PDF manual, it has a DIP switch(es) for controlling the clock speed and ratio. Have you tried with any of those? It might be possible to manually override the clock speed with those, assuming something got damaged on the board & therefore is no longer able to detect automatically. I had a DFI Socket A board with something like that, think the model number was AK74. It would work on manual override, but not on auto.
 
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Was just looking at the BE6-II PDF manual, it has a DIP switch(es) for controlling the clock speed and ratio. Have you tried with any of those? It might be possible to manually override the clock speed with those, assuming something got damaged on the board & therefore is no longer able to detect automatically. I had a DFI Socket A board with something like that, think the model number was AK74. It would work on manual override, but not on auto.
Hmmm.....I did not try that. I will tonight.
 
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Cool, let us know if it works! And also let me know if you need PDF manuals for BE6 or BE6-II, I got both on a CD. Also got the paper one, but it's in German so I don't think it would be of much use to you (or even me for that matter :D)

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Source, BE6-II PDF manual
 
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No change. I will re-cap the board.
 
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Gutted for you but it sounds like it has had a hard life :oops:

Having a bit of a play with slot 1 stuff myself recently.

I have a later QDI board which supports all slot 1 chips but it has what I can only figure as a broken trace somewhere, mess with the ATX connector and it power cycles even though I have replaced the atx connector and reflowed all obvious connections :rolleyes:

My other Slot 1 440BX boards are pre coppermine jobs.

I think 440BX boards are the biggest headache going for trying to get later processors to work, even if you find a board which is happy to run them you often have a devils job of getting the later bios for it anyway! Oh and some boards have different versions so some are fine with coppermines some aren't under the same model number :banghead:

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