Take care of it, it's worth a lot of money.

I don't have the original CDs but I have got all systems running in Windows ME and Windows XP. What drivers do you need?

https://forums.hexus.net/abit-care-hexus/2445 … e0-updates.html

(I don't remember where I got this information. There may be more not listed.)

The following official files are available for this board: […]
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The following official files are available for this board:

• ABIT EQ 1.12 (abiteq1112.exe)
• Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 4.6 for Windows 2000, Windows XP and windows 2003 (iaar_460.zip)
• Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 4.1 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (iaar_410.exe)
• Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition v3.52 for Windows XP, Windows 2000 (iaar352_enu.exe)
• Intel Chipset Driver 7.0.0.1025 for Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (7001025.zip)
• Intel Chipset Driver 6.2.1.1001 for Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (6211001.exe)
• Intel Chipset Driver 6.0.1.1002 for Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (6011002.exe)
• Intel Chipset Driver 5.0.0.1032 for Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (5001032.zip)
• Realtek Audio Driver 3.76 for Windows 2003, XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95 (a376.zip)
• Realtek Audio Driver AP v3.62 (ap_a362.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.62 for Windows NT (nt4_a362.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.62 for Win98SE/Me/2000/XP (wdm_a362.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.62 for Win 95/98 (vxd_a362.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver AP v3.59 (ap_a359.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.59 for Windows NT (nt4_a359.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.59 for Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP (wdm_a359.exe)
• Realtek Audio Driver v3.59 For Windows 95/98 (vxd_a359.exe)
• ABIT SATA Installation Disk v1.33 for Win NT/2000/XP (disk133.exe)
• ABIT SATA Installation Disk v1.32 for Windows XP/2000/2003 (disk132.exe)
• ABIT SATA Installation Disk v1.21 for Windows XP/2000 (disk121.exe)
• Silicon Image 3114 SATA Driver 1.0.0.1 For Windows 98se/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 (1001.exe)
• Silicon Image 3114 SATA Driver 1.0.0.1 for floppy (disk.exe)
• Intel(R) Network Adapter PRO 1000 Software 8.2 for all OS (pro1000_8.2.zip)
• Onboard LAN Driver 8.2 for Win98/Me (win9xme.exe)
• Onboard LAN Driver 8.2 for Win 2000 (win2k.exe)
• Onboard LAN Driver 8.2 for Win XP (winxp32.exe)
• USB Driver for Windows ME/98SE (1102.exe)

Drivers for this board are also collected in the ABIT_IC7-MAX3_USB_2_and_more.zip archive. This is not an official file.

The manual (Rev. 1.01) is ic7-max3.pdf

The latest BIOS appears to be version 1.8 (ic7p18.exe)

thanks for the links, now i know what zips to look for

this board is supposed to be one of the best pentium4 boards?
mine has missing northbridge fan and the legs on the firefire chip had green corrosion so i cleaned it up with vinegar and some isoprophil alcohol.
board works perfectly tho. I can't say anything bad about it because i paid 12 bucks for it with a pentium4 3.2ghz included.

when i saw it i wanted it right away, so different compared to other brands, god i miss Abit.

this board is supposed to be one of the best pentium4 boards?

ABIT IC7, ASUS P4C800 and DFI LANPARTY PRO 875B are considered to be the best overclocking boards (300+ mhz FSB) on Socket 478 platform.

I don't have the driver CD anymore (not that I know of, anyway) but I used to own an IC7-G and have the drivers archived on my NAS. Probably downloads vs. the CD, dated 2007. Looks like Win9x to Vista based on a quick 'ls' of the directories. I've got audio, chipset, LAN, and Intel and SI SATA drivers.

sorry guys forgot about this topic

so the link that was posted here is a no go because the files i belive where from an era way before the ftp was cloned.
with the help of wayback i was able to look at the motherboard site from 2009 or 2008 and with that i was able to get correct ftp link and filenames to download the drivers

even tho i wish i had the CD iso, just to take a look at it , kind of retro feeling i guess

SirNickity wrote:

I don't have the driver CD anymore (not that I know of, anyway) but I used to own an IC7-G and have the drivers archived on my NAS. Probably downloads vs. the CD, dated 2007. Looks like Win9x to Vista based on a quick 'ls' of the directories. I've got audio, chipset, LAN, and Intel and SI SATA drivers.

from what i understand overclock was made with an specific 2.4gz version of the cpu, in the pentium4 era, is that right?

There were some nice Northwood and Prescott 2.8-3.0 Ghz CPUs which could go up to 3.7-4.0 Ghz on air cooling. Sometimes even more.

I had a 2.0 that I overclocked for a while. I was working at a computer store at the time, so I kept checking inbound CPUs until I found one with the stepping that was confirmed as a Northwood that overclocks well. I think I had it running stable at 2.8 or something like that. I did all the things you're supposed to do to ensure a good overclock... watercooled it, properly lapped the copper heatsink, replaced all the LEDs in my drives and front panel with blue ones so the green and amber light wouldn't interfere with the higher FSB frequency, added CCL lighting to prevent the electrons from having to find their way in the dark, and took a jigsaw to my case so I could install an acrylic window that would let all the pesky photons out that might collide with the electrons. Pretty sure that last thing gave me another 200MHz.

A buddy of mine with far more devotion bought a Northwood 1.6, IIRC, and had it cranked to 3.0 with the aid of a Peltier cooler. He left work an AMD fan, skeptical, with new motherboard and CPU boxes tucked under one arm (just to prove his point, of course), and came back the next day preaching the Pentium 4 gospel.

SETBLASTER wrote on 2019-08-04, 18:15:

It is almost impossible to find drivers of such board Abit IC7 Max3 i want to ask if someone in this forum has it or collected i […]
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It is almost impossible to find drivers of such board Abit IC7 Max3
i want to ask if someone in this forum has it or collected it, maybe you can share an iso image with all the rest that got this motherboard but missing drivers.

Made a copy of my CD, version 1.21M.

FYI - The same CD is used for all IC7 variants - IC7, IC7-G and IC7-Max3, so this ISO image applies to all

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vWj7S1CBW7X7 … iew?usp=sharing

brt02 wrote on 2021-03-23, 14:58:

Made a copy of my CD, version 1.21M. […]
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SETBLASTER wrote on 2019-08-04, 18:15:

It is almost impossible to find drivers of such board Abit IC7 Max3 i want to ask if someone in this forum has it or collected i […]
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It is almost impossible to find drivers of such board Abit IC7 Max3
i want to ask if someone in this forum has it or collected it, maybe you can share an iso image with all the rest that got this motherboard but missing drivers.

Made a copy of my CD, version 1.21M.

FYI - The same CD is used for all IC7 variants - IC7, IC7-G and IC7-Max3, so this ISO image applies to all

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Q0xb_z6u7wA … iew?usp=sharing

Any chance you can share it again?

https://filebin.net/oynzwscoudnpehys

ETA: this CD identical to the one below, but in MDF/MDS format.

I've also updated the link in my original post to point to

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vWj7S1CBW7X7 … iew?usp=sharing

and have put it in the vogonsdrivers thread here, so hopefully should end up in there too.

Errius wrote on 2021-05-26, 13:17:

https://filebin.net/oynzwscoudnpehys

ETA: this CD identical to the one below, but in MDF/MDS format.

Thanks but unfortunately the link is dead

brt02 wrote on 2021-05-26, 14:26:

I've also updated the link in my original post to point to

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vWj7S1CBW7X7 … iew?usp=sharing

and have put it in the vogonsdrivers thread here, so hopefully should end up in there too.

Many thanks! 😃

Just want to add that when it comes to latest drivers the ABIT IC7-MAX3 is identical to the ABIT IC7-G, they are available on my website (https://soggi.org/motherboards/abit/IC7-G.htm) including latest abit EQ v1.2.3.1w - except for the Silicon Image SiI3114 driver (for now).

The latest BIOS version 18 dated 2004/11/01 is available at https://soggi.org/motherboards/abit.htm.

kind regards
soggi