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First post, by NuKaSLaYa

Posted on 2020-12-31, 12:34

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Hi all, new here.
Im hoping yall can help me locate a motherboard manual, usually i try to find stuff on my own but this motherboard seems rather difficult to find.

The motherboard is a (P15+ EP40202R202 REV 2.02) its an AT board
I have done enough digging to find out its a Octek Rhino 15+ REV 2.02

Only site i found with any trace of it didn't have the manual https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/Octek/ … plus/index.html

Hope someone can help me out!

Reply 1 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2020-12-31, 15:51

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I have the 1998 Octek HLP file on my other machine with many boards including the Rhino 15 and 15+, will up it to the library and post a link.

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Reply 2 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2020-12-31, 23:27

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Ok created a PDF of the specs, basic jumpers, etc from the corrupt missing .doc. Hope it helps.
The board and layout pictures could not be retrieved, can you take a good picture of your board ?

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Rhino 15plus.pdf

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22.41 KiB

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57 downloads

File license

Public domain

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Reply 3 of 9, by NuKaSLaYa

Posted on 2021-01-01, 00:26

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Wow, you are amazing. Thank you so much!
This is exactly what I was looking for.

Here are a few pics of the board

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Reply 4 of 9, by darry

Posted on 2021-01-01, 01:31

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This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT .

https://web.archive.org/web/20040307235022/ht … ual/P1/R15P.pdf

Manual

Filename: R15P.pdf
File size: 1.31 MiB
Downloads: 46 downloads
File license: Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 5 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2021-01-01, 03:16

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darry wrote on 2021-01-01, 01:31:
This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT . […]
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This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT .

https://web.archive.org/web/20040307235022/ht … ual/P1/R15P.pdf

Manual
R15P.pdf

Good find ! And good searching ! Guess I should looked farther into the future on their newer website domains 😀
I focused on the elusive Rp15jpset.DOC and kept searching till found enough to rebuild it, only because most of the early Octek 286, 386, 486 manuals were only in WP or early MS Word format.
Did not expect to see a PDF of the old manual .

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 6 of 9, by darry

Posted on 2021-01-01, 06:12

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Horun wrote on 2021-01-01, 03:16:
Good find ! And good searching ! Guess I should looked farther into the future on their newer website domains :) I focused on th […]
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darry wrote on 2021-01-01, 01:31:
This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT . […]
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This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT .

https://web.archive.org/web/20040307235022/ht … ual/P1/R15P.pdf

Manual
R15P.pdf

Good find ! And good searching ! Guess I should looked farther into the future on their newer website domains 😀
I focused on the elusive Rp15jpset.DOC and kept searching till found enough to rebuild it, only because most of the early Octek 286, 386, 486 manuals were only in WP or early MS Word format.
Did not expect to see a PDF of the old manual .

I just saw your reconstructed doc file. It is great that you were able to get that much info.

Finding something in the ashes of a website on archive.org is, IMHO, more often than not, the result of being both persistent and lucky.

Though it would not have helped here, if the websites on archive.org were fully indexed and their content (html, pdf, txt, doc) centrally text searchable, it would be a thing of wonder . I can only imagine how much useful hardware/software data and drivers could be sleeping in old nondescript personal web pages and forgotten unofficial mirrors .

Reply 7 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2021-01-02, 02:09

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darry wrote on 2021-01-01, 06:12:

I just saw your reconstructed doc file. It is great that you were able to get that much info.

Finding something in the ashes of a website on archive.org is, IMHO, more often than not, the result of being both persistent and lucky.

Though it would not have helped here, if the websites on archive.org were fully indexed and their content (html, pdf, txt, doc) centrally text searchable, it would be a thing of wonder . I can only imagine how much useful hardware/software data and drivers could be sleeping in old nondescript personal web pages and forgotten unofficial mirrors .

Wow yes IF we could do even a simple generic name search in Wayback machine it would be so fantastic !
Am going to reconstruct that manual you found so each page is in proper page view and in numerical and order this weekend. Thanks for the pdf !

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 8 of 9, by hwh

Posted on 2021-01-02, 08:38

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darry wrote on 2021-01-01, 06:12:

Though it would not have helped here, if the websites on archive.org were fully indexed and their content (html, pdf, txt, doc) centrally text searchable, it would be a thing of wonder . I can only imagine how much useful hardware/software data and drivers could be sleeping in old nondescript personal web pages and forgotten unofficial mirrors .

Google needs to get on that.

Reply 9 of 9, by Horun

Posted on 2021-01-02, 22:57

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darry wrote on 2021-01-01, 01:31:
This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT . […]
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This seems to be the official manual, AFAICT .

https://web.archive.org/web/20040307235022/ht … ual/P1/R15P.pdf

Manual
R15P.pdf

Reworked the PDF: pulled all original images, created a cover and renumbered pages in numerical order keeping original image size with less compression,
added to the library
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … 766&menustate=0

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

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