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Help! Trying to find bios update for freeway motherboard

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First post, by Sphere478

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A few of us vogonoinians have been playing with these freeway motherboards as of late but are having trouble finding bios resources for them, the latest bios in particular, is of great interest. But as you know freeway is long out of business.

We have been able to gather a small number of versions but far from a complete list and no telling if they are actually the latest.

With the ultra pretty sure it isn’t the latest.

https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/10151

https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/10150

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Reply 1 of 6, by Repo Man11

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The archived Freeway site shows the Ultra as having a BIOS update on 4/26/2000 (5vgfud5.zip) but no working download link to be found.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000521120343/ht … 5vgf+ultra.html

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Reply 2 of 6, by Sphere478

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-01-31, 23:28:

The archived Freeway site shows the Ultra as having a BIOS update on 4/26/2000 (5vgfud5.zip) but no working download link to be found.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000521120343/ht … 5vgf+ultra.html

darn, so the bios in the board that is on the way is about a month out of date.

Sphere's PCB projects.
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Sphere’s socket 5/7 cpu collection.
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SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
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Tyan S1564S to S1564D single to dual processor conversion (also s1563 and s1562)

Reply 3 of 6, by Repo Man11

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-01, 05:06:
Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-01-31, 23:28:

The archived Freeway site shows the Ultra as having a BIOS update on 4/26/2000 (5vgfud5.zip) but no working download link to be found.
https://web.archive.org/web/20000521120343/ht … 5vgf+ultra.html

darn, so the bios in the board that is on the way is about a month out of date.

I doubt that - BIOS updates usually lag at least a month between the date the BIOS was written and the date it was released.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

Reply 6 of 6, by Sphere478

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You know what, that file that we have been looking for says D5 and so does the board in post. It seems (as someone mentioned somewhere) that the bios I was able to dump may in fact be the bios I have been looking for…

Sphere's PCB projects.
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Sphere’s socket 5/7 cpu collection.
-
SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
-
Tyan S1564S to S1564D single to dual processor conversion (also s1563 and s1562)

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