ABIT : The website will stop providing service on 28st of February, 2012

[oli]

If you guys go and get the Archive Team onto this I am sure they'll find good mirrors for it...

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[Draxx]

Originally Posted by Kevlarman

Bah you're right! I was thinking of the KT7A!

I remember that board - simply awesome, as were all their boards in that era.

Over the years I've had the BH6, BE6-II, BP6, KR7A, KT7, KT7A, NF7, NF7-S, IC7-G, AN8-Ultra, AB9-PRO

It's such a shame they went crap following the AB9, and then died off altogether...

EDIT:
I've just had a little browse on archive.org, and found a couple of old PCDB entries from 2002 & 2003!:

• 19 JUL 2002 - http://web.archive.org/web/200207190...ats&name=Draxx (KR7A-RAID)
• 25 MAY 2003 - http://web.archive.org/web/200305251...ats&name=Draxx (NF7-S)

[power]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Yea, that's great. I was one of the first in the country to have a bp6 as I imported one before you could buy them here. So I don't know who you think you're preaching to. I specifically beta tested windows 2000 so I could get the most from the thing.

That "unique" controller was a buggy suck arse pos that I cut off my board. Yes I did, I literally cut the highpoint crap off. Anyone who cares to remember, would remember me doing that. Yea, I was a hardcore overclocker/tweaker back then. Hardware these days is nowhere near even being remotely interesting, let alone exciting, so yea, I don't care to tinker anymore.

I then upgraded to a far superior board being the asus p3v4x with a pentium3.

It's a shame you didn't use your Highpoint at the time it made all the people I knew VERY jealous as it was bloody quick when combined with a 7200RPM drive (these weren't plentiful at the time either).

I didn't find mine buggy at all, but then I updated my BIOS to the most stable version which updated the controller as well.

Great board, wish there were more unique boards like this out there today. Remembering at the time pretty much everything on the market was not enthusiast centered.

The P3V anthing was pretty rubbish too as the VIA chipsets at the time were quite unstable.

[Draxx]

Due to one person not understanding the concept of "download what you need" (IP: 88.151.101.150, I'm talking to you), I have removed anonymous access to the server. If you wish to download from the server, please PM me and I'll create a user account for you. Sorry it takes an idiot to ruin it for everyone else....

[c.f4]

Hey guys,

Could you point me in the right direction for

ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE BIOS updates.

I had a project computer back in 2005 working with ALU and Copper. Currently the PC is sitting in the Philippines but when I do get it shipped back over here I'd like to see if I can crank the Prescott back up to where it was.

[Draxx]

PM sent.....

[Sundarjee77]

+1 internets to Draxx for helping out so much

[Deanodriver]

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

Lol, no ISA slot on an NF7 mate. You'd need to wind back another few years for that!

The KT7A did. I had one of those back in the day, and they definitely had an ISA slot. I used to run my old SB AWE32 in it

Used to run a Duron 700 in the KT7A. Good times

[Annihilator69]

Originally Posted by Deanodriver

The KT7A did. I had one of those back in the day, and they definitely had an ISA slot. I used to run my old SB AWE32 in it

Used to run a Duron 700 in the KT7A. Good times

Me too,

I had a Duron 800 on mine overclocked to 950mhz I felt like a champ. Especially since you have to draw on the pins with a graphite pencil to bridge the connectors.

[lukaspc]

Hi...I found your post regarding a mirror for abit website.....
I am here to ask you if possible to access your ftp or if you prefer, to receive via mail ( lukanim@libero.it ) especially the LAST FW for ix38 gt3 motherboard from abit

I know that your post in feb but I no want to lose hope to find this damn firmware.....

if you want, my skype is lukaspc ....pls I will wait a your contact saturday too (at your evening or morning I will be online ).....

Thanks for your help-----

[SLATYE]

lukaspc, I've probably got that (I backed up the whole site too).

Could you clarify which firmware you need? As far as I know there was an IX38 QuadGT and an IX48 GT3. Are you after the IX48 GT3 firmware?

[Draxx]

Originally Posted by lukaspc

Hi...I found your post regarding a mirror for abit website.....
I am here to ask you if possible to access your ftp or if you prefer, to receive via mail ( lukanim@libero.it ) especially the LAST FW for ix38 gt3 motherboard from abit

I know that your post in feb but I no want to lose hope to find this damn firmware.....

if you want, my skype is lukaspc ....pls I will wait a your contact saturday too (at your evening or morning I will be online ).....

Thanks for your help-----

PM Replied...

[Sciflyer]

Originally Posted by trackhappy

BTW when did Abit stop making motherboards? I know they were one of the crappier brands but tbh I didn't notice that they were a dying breed...

Er what? Abit were one of the best mobo manufacturers around in the '90s/'00s!

[miicah]

Abit NF7-S rep here, great mobo.

[SLATYE]

Originally Posted by miicah

Abit NF7-S rep here, great mobo.

Absolutely. I remember there was a time when I just had a collection of 10+ quotes from OCAU, each along the lines of "get an NF7-S". Every time someone asked which mainboard to get, I'd just paste the quotes in and leave it at that.

Originally Posted by Sciflyer

Er what? Abit were one of the best mobo manufacturers around in the '90s/'00s!

Towards the end they did start to go downhill. The X38/X48 boards had a number of issues with 'normal' hardware combinations that Abit never resolved through BIOS updates. Even when priced way below any other board with comparable features they weren't really attractive.