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Reply 60 of 111, by niagarasys

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Horun wrote:

That is the list I promised to get the manuals and Last BIOS files for, earlier in this topic and yes I have done it, 201 diff motherboards. Am still working on the ones listed as recent by Intel (67, 77, 85, etc chipset: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/suppo … top-boards.html).

I just registered on this forum to say I appreciate all the efforts of folks in this forum as you're saving many of us the time we would have spent doing the same thing. I've already snagged a few of the files you guys have shared! Ironically I just flashed a DH87 board last week. Intel is removing these files prematurely and I'm really disappointed. Even with Asus you can download BIOS files for Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 motherboards!

Reply 62 of 111, by oeuvre

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There's also this from a redditor https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments … of_drivers_and/

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Reply 65 of 111, by Bruninho

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Hopefully someone will save these downloads somewhere, in any third party service? Intel is going nuts if they will really remove them. I have a mini-ITX board which BIOS I have never upgraded, except the day I created my last hackintosh back in 2014.

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Reply 66 of 111, by Horun

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bfcastello wrote:

Hopefully someone will save these downloads somewhere, in any third party service? Intel is going nuts if they will really remove them. I have a mini-ITX board which BIOS I have never upgraded, except the day I created my last hackintosh back in 2014.

IF you would have included the model number of the board I could grab anything I find before tomorrows deadline of them removing everything. So far I have grabbed everything I can but some models are in non-standard sections of support and may have missed a few..

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Reply 68 of 111, by enigmaxg2

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I downloaded manually all the BIOSes I could and organized into Socket/Chipset/Board/Version it's almost 2GB in size.

In case of a transitional BIOS needed but no longer available (thankfully were only 2 or 3 cases across the entire board list) I took it from the rebyte site.

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This is an example of how I organized them:

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Also downloaded some Wifi and Bluetooth drivers (and streamlined the archive because most of these are shared across devices). Another 2GBs.

Reply 69 of 111, by karl80038

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Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation software (or whoever is managing their site has nothing better to do). My download's list is incomplete and let's not even talk about saving all these links to Archive.org's Wayback Machine (when I think about it now, I should have saved the page while pasting the links in to the document). It's obviously my fault, I should have done this sooner. Now it's too late.
If anybody could make some use of my incomplete list, here's the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MrUMPygX7Wr … nfeWGAj9K3A43gA
I'm happy that all (or most of) the files have been collected together and will be preserved.
In this day and age, it seems you cannot trust any company or corporation. I used to trust companies like HP and Intel. I'm aware companies can do what ever they want with the drivers on their website, that includes removing them. But when many other companies can keep their old stuff on the site (Dell for example, still has drivers for most of the stuff they've produced, some of them dating back to the 90s). Most motherboard manufacturers still in business (Intel has not produced motherboards for a very long time) have motherboard drivers for almost every board they've ever produced. This stuff doesn't take up that much room, considering how much storage these companies have on their servers.
Very unfortunate situation.

Reply 70 of 111, by enigmaxg2

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karl80038 wrote:
Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation softw […]
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Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation software (or whoever is managing their site has nothing better to do). My download's list is incomplete and let's not even talk about saving all these links to Archive.org's Wayback Machine (when I think about it now, I should have saved the page while pasting the links in to the document). It's obviously my fault, I should have done this sooner. Now it's too late.
If anybody could make some use of my incomplete list, here's the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MrUMPygX7Wr … nfeWGAj9K3A43gA
I'm happy that all (or most of) the files have been collected together and will be preserved.
In this day and age, it seems you cannot trust any company or corporation. I used to trust companies like HP and Intel. I'm aware companies can do what ever they want with the drivers on their website, that includes removing them. But when many other companies can keep their old stuff on the site (Dell for example, still has drivers for most of the stuff they've produced, some of them dating back to the 90s). Most motherboard manufacturers still in business (Intel has not produced motherboards for a very long time) have motherboard drivers for almost every board they've ever produced. This stuff doesn't take up that much room, considering how much storage these companies have on their servers.
Very unfortunate situation.

Either you pasted the link wrong, or they have already DMCA'ed it...

BTW, I need to upload mine, what's the best site where they can survive long enough? Uploading 4GB with third world connection will be a PITA.

Reply 71 of 111, by Horun

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karl80038 wrote:

Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation software (or whoever is managing their site has nothing better to do). My download's list is incomplete and let's not even talk about saving all these links to Archive.org's Wayback Machine (when I think about it now, I should have saved the page while pasting the links in to the document). It's obviously my fault, I should have done this sooner. Now it's too late.
If anybody could make some use of my incomplete list, here's the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MrUMPygX7Wr … nfeWGAj9K3A43gA

Yes they did a mass wipe about 6pm my time. If you grabbed anything that is great ! Yes your link Google Drive does not work. If you grabbed anything that is so much better than most who idly sit by and wait for other to archive it. Great job ! If I get my ftp server back up you can upload to it (may take a few weeks).

enigmaxg2 wrote:

I downloaded manually all the BIOSes I could and organized into Socket/Chipset/Board/Version it's almost 2GB in size.

Look Good ! Bet that took some time. I think I got all the stuff but have an issue with a couple Q77 saves, seems they are a bit borked but think I can fix it.

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Reply 72 of 111, by Horun

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One of the things I tried to save with the manuals and BIOS is a (crude) .TXT of the BIOS download page which contains as important info as the BIOS Release..pdf (as to what the files are). Now that those pages at Intel are down here is an example of one Archived page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191119130950/ht … -?product=59044
and my saved TXT file in attachment. Just one example of what scraping download.mirror cannot get you. Good thing Archive.org has saved those webpages but to figure out what which page is what is a differant story ;p

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  • Filename
    DQ77MK.txt
    File size
    2.3 KiB
    Downloads
    138 downloads
    File license
    Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Reply 74 of 111, by karl80038

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Try this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MrUMPygX7WrA … ew?usp=drivesdk
I didn't download anything. I'm still surprised how fast Intel pulled the downloads. I was hoping to in the end to save the links to Wayback Machine. I should've started doing the whole process a day earlier. Somebody at Intel obviously had nothing better to do. I wonder if they would fire the guy responsible if he/she didn't pull the files in time.

Reply 75 of 111, by Horun

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Link works, thanks for that, will come in handy at archive.org for searching for old webpages on those boards you saved links too.
Got my archiving, sorting, naming, etc. done. Total of 259 different boards manuals and bios, totals about 5Gb (5.02 to be exact) with everything.

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Reply 77 of 111, by RoyBatty

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It's been months, what became of this? I just bought an old board without even thinking about it... and now I can't find the manual or bios or drivers.

Horun was archiving everything they could, did it make it somewhere?

Reply 78 of 111, by toastdieb

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Looks like a few people did scrapes of the entire Intel download center before it went away, but I haven't seen individual files posted anywhere, just somewhat sketchy 350GB torrents that claim to be the entire archive

Reply 79 of 111, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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RoyBatty wrote on 2020-01-28, 06:10:

It's been months, what became of this? I just bought an old board without even thinking about it... and now I can't find the manual or bios or drivers.

Horun was archiving everything they could, did it make it somewhere?

Which board?