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Old February 22nd 18, 04:23 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Thomas Lake[_2_]
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Default Advantech AIMB-742 BIOS?

Does anyone have a copy of the BIOS file for the Advantech AIMB-742 motherboard?

The file name is:

A742V123.BIN

If so, please send me a copy! Thanks.
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Old February 22nd 18, 11:57 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Paul[_28_]
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Default Advantech AIMB-742 BIOS?

Thomas Lake wrote:
Does anyone have a copy of the BIOS file for the Advantech AIMB-742 motherboard?

The file name is:

A742V123.BIN

If so, please send me a copy! Thanks.


It looks like a dead end.

http://www.advantech.com.gr/support/...l-1897.asp.htm

http://taiwan.advantech.com.tw/unzip...le_Id=1-20HXE2

It looks like Advantech changed their download server around 2009 or so.

The new site checks for "Download/DownloadSr.aspx?file_id=" and
the above (old) File_Id value is not on the new site. And my guess is, the
search engines can't index in there either, so they won't figure
out the new mapping to A742V123.BIN by accident. (That's if the file
is even still on the server.)

The (old) "taiwan.advantech.com.tw" is in archive.org, however, the unzipfile
subsection is not archived. My guess is there was a NoRobots in
there or something. Archive.org doesn't usually explain in brutal detail,
why a search failed.

*******

You could try Advantech email support.

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A used version of the motherboard is on Ebay for $160. Naturally,
the BIOS chip won't be up to date, but if yours is corrupted, you
could clone the info in the existing (still bootable) chip. You could
send the 32-pin PLCC to Badflash or similar, and have a copy made.
We had a universal PROM programmer at work (approx. $6K) that could
copy a large number of chip types, and it could be used for a job
like this. Not many computer stores would have something like that,
as it's too large a capital outlay. Ours was a so-called "contactless"
model, where there wasn't a socket, and you just lay the bare chip on
some sort of grid material in the programming well. You have to tell
the machine the chip part number, as the chips don't have sufficient
PNP for that.

The BIOS flash companies don't generally consider themselves an "archive".
They usually suggest a customer send a BIOS file when having a chip
programmed. One site I could find, did mention the products they already
had a file for. For all of Advantech, they had one file, and it's not
the file you want either.

Paul
 




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