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First post, by SETBLASTER

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yesterday i spent more than an hour looking at wayback machine tryint go get official info on some motherboards, and drivers too but each time i hit the motherboard selection page using waybay i juts got to a wall and could not see anything. also the drivers download area was imposible to access, tried many years like 2000. 2001, 2002, 2003 and no go.

then i saw this link online and found a trick on how to actually access every motherboard editing the wayback link

for example you can go to this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030701014618/ht … PRODUCT_ID=1410
on the dropdown menu you can select many models and i seems working.

But that link does not have older or full list of boards
so you can go here
https://web.archive.org/web/20040815174603/ht … PRODUCT_ID=1217

--then select any board from the dropdown list ,click on GO, and wait for wayback to fail.
--then look at the failed link , in the middle of the screen, it will give you the product_ID= of the motherboard
--then you can just edit the link with the product_ID you want and wayback shows the info of the motherboard.

Not only that i was able to download files like BIOS, drivers and manuals (which no other site on google hosted)

hope this helps for you all that got old DFI boards

Reply 2 of 19, by Horun

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Very Nice ! Someone should archive them all. I had trouble finding info on the DFI G686IPA and found it thru elhvb.com but there is not many boards newer than Socket 8

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Reply 3 of 19, by SETBLASTER

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Horun wrote on 2020-09-06, 18:56:

Very Nice ! Someone should archive them all. I had trouble finding info on the DFI G686IPA and found it thru elhvb.com but there is not many boards newer than Socket 8

yea for those old ones i hit a wall again
https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/19981201070603/ht … t/downloads.asp

files are not available.

Reply 4 of 19, by Horun

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Yep ! for some reason the links with "/ftp/" or "ftproot" in the file link are dead.
Here is another .TW archive of my board: https://web.archive.org/web/19970525202045/ht … ard/G686IPA.htm
bios links: https://web.archive.org/web/19970525193757if_ … OS&Drivers1.htm
Here are some DFI 386 to 686 archives: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Dfi/ma … uals/index.html
and some more: https://www.elhvb.com/supportbios.info/Archiv … /DFI/index.html >> but many are empty folders !

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Reply 5 of 19, by keropi

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https://archive.org/details/ftp-www_elhvb_com … mobokive-mirror

www_elhvb_com-mobokive.tar 18-Aug-2016 20:12 17.1G 😉

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Reply 6 of 19, by Stiletto

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keropi wrote on 2020-09-06, 21:01:

https://archive.org/details/ftp-www_elhvb_com … mobokive-mirror

www_elhvb_com-mobokive.tar 18-Aug-2016 20:12 17.1G 😉

That's nice, but I mean, "evasive" the web admin of elhvb is on VOGONS too, so...

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do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 7 of 19, by keropi

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Stiletto wrote on 2020-09-08, 00:49:

That's nice, but I mean, "evasive" the web admin of elhvb is on VOGONS too, so...

Really? I had no idea. I just browsed archive.org for siterips sometime ago and found it...

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Reply 8 of 19, by Stiletto

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keropi wrote on 2020-09-08, 05:03:
Stiletto wrote on 2020-09-08, 00:49:

That's nice, but I mean, "evasive" the web admin of elhvb is on VOGONS too, so...

Really? I had no idea. I just browsed archive.org for siterips sometime ago and found it...

Yep! To be fair, he only joined in April 😀
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Reply 9 of 19, by evasive

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keropi wrote on 2020-09-06, 21:01:

https://archive.org/details/ftp-www_elhvb_com … mobokive-mirror

www_elhvb_com-mobokive.tar 18-Aug-2016 20:12 17.1G 😉

Ah, finally I know how big it is then 😀 And it's good to know it's completely archived now.

Reply 10 of 19, by ykot

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Many thanks for sharing this, I could finally find an updated BIOS for my DFI CS62-TC motherboard this way. The first time I entered BIOS section (on the left blue menu), it appeared empty, but after going to "Driver" and then clicking on "Bios" again, the list finally appeared.

Reply 11 of 19, by Horun

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Great yhot ! Glad you found what you needed.
Wish an admin would add a new section under Marvin, the Paranoid Android called Hardware Archive links (or similar). If we had that and were allowed to create new Topics then we could create a topic for each found good "company" source and others could add to them as they find sources. Something like this topic and the Intel board bios/driver topic could be moved there for easier searching and finding stuff relative to each manufacture that has wiped their ftps or driver libraries of older stuff.. Just a thought....

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Reply 12 of 19, by darry

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Horun wrote on 2020-09-09, 01:43:

Great yhot ! Glad you found what you needed.
Wish an admin would add a new section under Marvin, the Paranoid Android called Hardware Archive links (or similar). If we had that and were allowed to create new Topics then we could create a topic for each found good "company" source and others could add to them as they find sources. Something like this topic and the Intel board bios/driver topic could be moved there for easier searching and finding stuff relative to each manufacture that has wiped their ftps or driver libraries of older stuff.. Just a thought....

I will chime in to say that the fact that both Asus and Gigabyte both still offer downloads and documentation for products from over 20 years ago is laudable . OK, some of Asus' support pages are broken , like https://www.asus.com/supportonly/PVI-486SP3/H … pDesk_Download/ , but at least they did not intentionally wipe any sign of their legacy products from the face of the planet . Obviously, the fact that both Asus and Gigabyte are still in business certainly helps .

Reply 13 of 19, by Horun

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SETBLASTER wrote on 2020-09-06, 19:35:
yea for those old ones i hit a wall again https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp https://web.archive.or […]
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yea for those old ones i hit a wall again
https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/19981201070603/ht … t/downloads.asp

files are not available.

Opening this topic back up. Found 5 manuals for 686IPA and 686IPB by using the wildcard * on www.dfi.com
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … ownload/manual/* and type 6i in the filter box
no BIOS for it but found some other older boards: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … /download/bios/*

Also at www.dfi.com.tw most of the manuals and bios are found in the /upload folder not http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/* Note may get a script error in some browsers as it returns "5,305 URLs have been captured" once finished,
and typing MAN in filter returns 18 pages of pdf manuals and typing PDF in filter gets 22 pages...
but you have to know the bios and manual name which can be found using your technique mentioned above...

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. https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 14 of 19, by SETBLASTER

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Horun wrote on 2021-03-06, 21:35:
Opening this topic back up. Found 5 manuals for 686IPA and 686IPB by using the wildcard * on www.dfi.com https://web.archive.org […]
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SETBLASTER wrote on 2020-09-06, 19:35:
yea for those old ones i hit a wall again https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp https://web.archive.or […]
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yea for those old ones i hit a wall again
https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/19981201070603/ht … t/downloads.asp

files are not available.

Opening this topic back up. Found 5 manuals for 686IPA and 686IPB by using the wildcard * on www.dfi.com
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … ownload/manual/* and type 6i in the filter box
no BIOS for it but found some other older boards: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … /download/bios/*

Also at www.dfi.com.tw most of the manuals and bios are found in the /upload folder not http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/* Note may get a script error in some browsers as it returns "5,305 URLs have been captured" once finished,
and typing MAN in filter returns 18 pages of pdf manuals and typing PDF in filter gets 22 pages...
but you have to know the bios and manual name which can be found using your technique mentioned above...

thats an amazing find
on my method some of the really old motherboards are not available in the dropdown menu, for example many socket7 boards
but with your method you can check if there are bios and manuals for them

Reply 15 of 19, by Horun

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SETBLASTER wrote on 2021-03-12, 02:46:
thats an amazing find on my method some of the really old motherboards are not available in the dropdown menu, for example many […]
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Horun wrote on 2021-03-06, 21:35:
Opening this topic back up. Found 5 manuals for 686IPA and 686IPB by using the wildcard * on www.dfi.com https://web.archive.org […]
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SETBLASTER wrote on 2020-09-06, 19:35:
yea for those old ones i hit a wall again https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp https://web.archive.or […]
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yea for those old ones i hit a wall again
https://web.archive.org/web/19990424065759/ht … cts/g686ipa.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/19981201070603/ht … t/downloads.asp

files are not available.

Opening this topic back up. Found 5 manuals for 686IPA and 686IPB by using the wildcard * on www.dfi.com
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … ownload/manual/* and type 6i in the filter box
no BIOS for it but found some other older boards: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi. … /download/bios/*

Also at www.dfi.com.tw most of the manuals and bios are found in the /upload folder not http://www.dfi.com.tw/Support/Download/
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/* Note may get a script error in some browsers as it returns "5,305 URLs have been captured" once finished,
and typing MAN in filter returns 18 pages of pdf manuals and typing PDF in filter gets 22 pages...
but you have to know the bios and manual name which can be found using your technique mentioned above...

thats an amazing find
on my method some of the really old motherboards are not available in the dropdown menu, for example many socket7 boards
but with your method you can check if there are bios and manuals for them

Thanks ! be sure to add the ending * in your browser, and using your method was able to find a bunch of Good stuff !
Good teamwork 😀

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. https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 16 of 19, by evasive

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11/16/96-i440FX-8669-2A69HD49C-00
v4.51PG

added to the UR page:
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/1797
that is still missing good pictures of the board (wink wink)

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Reply 17 of 19, by evasive

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I am currently working on adding the older DFI boards to Ultimate Retro and as a result found this poting. This goes for any of you: if you cannot find a manual or bios, just DM me, I'll check the offline files that are not on elhvb.com

Reply 19 of 19, by Horun

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evasive wrote on 2022-01-06, 19:15:
11/16/96-i440FX-8669-2A69HD49C-00 v4.51PG […]
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11/16/96-i440FX-8669-2A69HD49C-00
v4.51PG

added to the UR page:
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/1797
that is still missing good pictures of the board (wink wink)

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    1866s_DFI 686IPB.zip
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    DFI 686IP-B
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    Public domain

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. https://archive.org/details/@horun