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FIC AN11 Drivers & BIOS

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First post, by songoffall

Posted on 2023-10-15, 19:41

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I'm doing a socket A build (Athlon Thunderbird 700) on FIC AN11 Stealth. The board is quite good, and all the caps seem to be in good order.

Sadly, it's quite hard to get the drivers and BIOS for this motherboard. I'd be thankful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Google and Archive.org weren't particularly helpful.

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

Posted on 2023-10-15, 20:18

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What rev motherboard is it ? The two BIOS can be found here: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … s/socketa/an11/
or here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-an11#downloads
For drivers according to the FIC website: http://web.archive.org/web/20050728151359/htt … at_id=240000049
It came with 1st Utilities Version 1.0 Software CD (link points here: ftp://ftp.fica.com/cd_pro/motherboard/1stUtilitiesV100/)
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … Utilities_v1.0/

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Reply 2 of 2, by songoffall

Posted on 2023-10-16, 06:50

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Horun wrote on 2023-10-15, 20:18:
What rev motherboard is it ? The two BIOS can be found here: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … s/socketa/an11/ or […]
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What rev motherboard is it ? The two BIOS can be found here: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … s/socketa/an11/
or here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-an11#downloads
For drivers according to the FIC website: http://web.archive.org/web/20050728151359/htt … at_id=240000049
It came with 1st Utilities Version 1.0 Software CD (link points here: ftp://ftp.fica.com/cd_pro/motherboard/1stUtilitiesV100/)
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … Utilities_v1.0/

Thanks, friend. I'm not sure this motherboard has revisions - at least none written on the board itself, the manual or the BIOS.

The GeForce 4 MX440 refused to be recognized by drivers, so I thought the BIOS might have something to do with it. But driver version 31 worked just fine.

I also found the drivers for Promise Ultra100 on Archive.org. It's a floppy image, just extract it with 7zip and install it, works fine.

Let's see how the rest goes - I have a SB Audigy 2 to get working.

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