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BE6 is the vanilla board without RAID, and the BE6-II has the same HPT366 controller as my Soyo SY-6BA+IV.
Checked earlier today, turns out I got two BE-6II. Used to have one BE-6, but it seems I threw it away. (had a severe cap issues, to the point where I didn't want to invest any more time or money into it)
 
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Thanks. If I'm right, it's limited to 137/128GB for each drive?
You're thinking of the artificial FAT32 limitation imposed by Microsoft. If you use a quality partition tool, such as AOMEI, FAT32 can be used in drives up to 2TB(2TB volume limitation).
 
Checked earlier today, turns out I got two BE-6II. Used to have one BE-6, but it seems I threw it away. (had a severe cap issues, to the point where I didn't want to invest any more time or money into it)
That's the exact reason Soyo and ABIT went under in USA. Soyo was banned because of using crapcaps (my 6BA+IV is filled to the brim with Wendell caps) and ABIT went bankrupt after a lawsuit that covered a whole range of Slot1/Skt370 boards, notably BE6, BE6-II, VP6, BP6, and a lot others.

From those two, Soyo still sells boards (they produced H61 boards!) in the Asia and Eurasia market (I've seen russian people buy H61 and AMD A77 boards manufactured by Soyo).

Gotta love them though for the fact that their English manual is up there with Gigabyte and MSI. At least the PDF for my 6BA+IV was nicely written.
 
Soyo was banned because of using crapcaps
They were never "banned". They just couldn't sell anything and went out of business by natural attrition.
ABIT went bankrupt after a lawsuit that covered a whole range of Slot1/Skt370 boards, notably BE6, BE6-II, VP6, BP6, and a lot others.
Never heard about that either. Never had any issues with the boards you mentioned either.
 
Never heard about that either. Never had any issues with the boards you mentioned either.
Last I understood was the talent responsible for Abit's well regarded overclocking boards left for DFI.

Wikipedia said:
Abit had somewhat of a blow in March 2003, when Oskar Wu, a leading engineer on the famous Abit NF7-S motherboard, resigned after the NForce series to become head of the LANParty range at competitor DFI.

On 15 December 2004, the Taiwan Stock Exchange downgraded ABIT's stock due to questionable accounting practices. Investigations revealed that the majority of their import/export business was conducted through seven companies, all located at the same address and each of which had a capital of only HK$2. This made it easy to inflate the reported number of motherboards sold. The Hong Kong media also reported that the management was being investigated for embezzling funds from the company.

In June 2005, ABIT partnered with Wan Hai Industries. This container shipping company, also a principal investor in China Airlines, brought the company much needed capital,[10] since the company had financial problems at this time, partly due to a class action lawsuit involving faulty capacitors on their products, but also because of marketing highly technical products to the general public while offering longer-than-average warranties and generous return policies.

On 25 January 2006, ABIT announced that USI intended to purchase ABIT Computer's motherboard business and brand and announced a special shareholders meeting to discuss the sale of ABIT's Neihu building, changing ABIT's company name, the disposition of the company's assets, and the release of the directors from non-competition restrictions. ABIT sold its own office building in Taipei to Deutsche Bank in order to raise money to cut its debt.

Following USI's acquisition of the motherboard business, the remaining divisions of ABIT switched to distributing components and networking products, while using its Suzhou, China plant only to offer some motherboard contract manufacturing services.

The acquired motherboard business and the 'ABIT' brand name were used by USI under the new brand name Universal abit. In the US, it was known as Universal abit USA Corporation. The old company, ABIT Computer Corporation (USA), is now dissolved and is no longer in existence.

Universal Abit later announced that it would close on 31 December 2008, and officially cease to exist on 1 January 2009.[2] By 2009, Abit no longer sold motherboards.

 
Last I understood was the talent responsible for Abit's well regarded overclocking boards left for DFI.
That I'd heard about.

But this I'd not;

Thanks for the info!
 
They were never "banned". They just couldn't sell anything and went out of business by natural attrition.
Soyo still produces boards in Asia. Here's a FM2 Soyo board.
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I never thought that I'll love P4 stuff. Time proved me wrong. :) P4P800 DELUXE and P4C800 DELUXE with an Asrock twist to spice things up. :D Yummy!!!

Cleaning is the order of the day, today and tomorrow to the infinity included. :D

I have tons of new HW to test but I decided to clean them first and ask questions later. :D We'll see if this was the right decision or not ... :D

More later.
 

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Abit boards were notorious for their capacitor problems... BE-6 & BE-6II in particular!

I remember one time, when Abit board scared the crap out of me. I was working on an old Pentium III system, and had it plugged into the mains, but the system was shut down. Not standing-by, not hybernating, it was shut down. I turned my back to the tower case, and wanted to do a quick research on drivers & manuals. There was no one else in the room, or even close to me when all of the sudden & without any warnings, I heard the noise behind me ... the system turned itself on! To make things even better, this incident happened only a day or two after my dad passed away!

You can probably imagine the look on my face, when that happened :D Then, years later I was working on a BE-6II board and the same thing happened all over again. Which finally helped me connect all the dots together. Funny though, I never had the similar experience with ANY other board. Regardless of the age, socket (or slot) and brand. Abit sucks ... period!
 
Soyo still produces boards in Asia. Here's a FM2 Soyo board.
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That looks pretty solid to me.

LUNIZ -- I GOT 5 ON IT

:D W.I.P. aka Work In Progress. :D

I never thought that I'll love P4 stuff. Time proved me wrong. :) P4P800 DELUXE and P4C800 DELUXE with an Asrock twist to spice things up. :D Yummy!!!

Cleaning is the order of the day, today and tomorrow to the infinity included. :D

I have tons of new HW to test but I decided to clean them first and ask questions later. :D We'll see if this was the right decision or not ... :D

More later.
Good stuff! That P4 was one of the best ones ever made. The Northwood cores were very easy to OC.
 
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That looks pretty solid to me.
Yeah, it is. They also sell under the Maxsun brand, and they've been making some awesome boards for the recent chipsets. (such as B350)

Abit boards were notorious for their capacitor problems... BE-6 & BE-6II in particular!

I remember one time, when Abit board scared the crap out of me. I was working on an old Pentium III system, and had it plugged into the mains, but the system was shut down. Not standing-by, not hybernating, it was shut down. I turned my back to the tower case, and wanted to do a quick research on drivers & manuals. There was no one else in the room, or even close to me when all of the sudden & without any warnings, I heard the noise behind me ... the system turned itself on! To make things even better, this incident happened only a day or two after my dad passed away!

You can probably imagine the look on my face, when that happened :D Then, years later I was working on a BE-6II board and the same thing happened all over again. Which finally helped me connect all the dots together. Funny though, I never had the similar experience with ANY other board. Regardless of the age, socket (or slot) and brand. Abit sucks ... period!
Abit boards are actually great once you replace the capacitors. Their BIOSes are pretty good (I was surprised to find there's a backup FTP for ABIT) and they OC rather well.
 
Abit boards are actually great once you replace the capacitors. Their BIOSes are pretty good (I was surprised to find there's a backup FTP for ABIT) and they OC rather well.
I think ABit was a victim of the bad-caps thing like everyone else back then, perhaps it just hit them harder.
 
Yeah, it is. They also sell under the Maxsun brand, and they've been making some awesome boards for the recent chipsets. (such as B350)


Abit boards are actually great once you replace the capacitors. Their BIOSes are pretty good (I was surprised to find there's a backup FTP for ABIT) and they OC rather well.
Right, I get that. But what good (or use) of a motherboard if it isn't going to last for years and years (without investing a lot of time, money and/or effort) into it? I had several Abit boards. BE-6, BE-6II, VH6 & others, ALL sharing the one thing in common - bad caps and serious problems!

Here's the previously-mentioned VH6 board (along with one of the BE-6II systems), I did my best to patch it up, but for some reason I never worked out the issue & eventually scrapped it, replacing the board with another brand.


See what I'm talking about?


I do have to point out however, that not all Abit boards seem to have the same issues. This AB-BH6 for example never had any problems... It only proves that miracles do happen from time to time :)
 
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4. Misc stuff - SST BIOS chip / RAM levers
5. Asus P4B533-E v1.02 (a few scratches on the back but nothing terminal)+ Cooler + Pentium 4 2.4GHz/512/533 - SL6DV
6. Pentium II - 266/66/512- 266MHz - SL2HE

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Taking a closer look at @Robert B 's pics & I've noticed that Pentium II cartridge came with retention frame, or bracket, whatever you want to call it. I seriously hope that it was properly unscrewed & not yanked off the motherboard...? :fear:

You'd be surprised how many of those ended up broken, bent and/or permanently removed (and lost) due to mishandling Slot-1 motherboards. Some brands were more clever than other ones, so Chaintech (6BTM) for example introduced a foldable frame, which can be folded horizontally when you more or store the board.
 
You'd be surprised how many of those ended up broken, bent and/or permanently removed (and lost) due to mishandling Slot-1 motherboards. Some brands were more clever than other ones, so Chaintech (6BTM) for example introduced a foldable frame, which can be folded horizontally when you more or store the board.

I think most boards came with foldable. I know that Jetway, Soyo and Acorp do come with foldable ones. A few exceptions I've had were an ASUS P2B and a P2L97, which had a non-foldable frame, but it compensated that by using screws instead of plastic push pins
 
The CPU came from an ACER V66LA motherboard. The motherboard was banged up and incomplete so I took what I needed and I left it behind.

I removed the CPU from the retention bracket. :) It was put like that during transport. The CPU has a temperature sensor in the middle of the heatsink and a proprietary cable plug. I can mount a new fan or use the old one so this is no biggie.
 

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I think most boards came with foldable. I know that Jetway, Soyo and Acorp do come with foldable ones. A few exceptions I've had were an ASUS P2B and a P2L97, which had a non-foldable frame, but it compensated that by using screws instead of plastic push pins
Interesting... :wtf:

My experience was completely opposite. From all the Slot-1 systems in my collection, only one or two (QDI Advance, Chaintech 6BTM) had foldable frame. In fact, most of them had a fixed frame, made from a single piece of plastic (rather than two sides, each one bolted separately), which often resulted with damage on these things. In fact, I've managed to find & stack quite a few of these, just in case.

Because quite often, when I stumble upon Slot-1 board it is missing the frame and/or it needs replacing. Either partial replacement, or entire, which depends on design & brand. In fact, Abit BE-6II was one of them, I clearly remember replacing one side of the frame on 6II board.
 
The CPU came from an ACER V66LA motherboard. The motherboard was banged up and incomplete so I took what I needed and I left it behind.

I removed the CPU from the retention bracket. :) It was put like that during transport. The CPU has a temperature sensor in the middle of the heatsink and a proprietary cable plug. I can mount a new fan or use the old one so this is no biggie.
The picture in that post seems to have the heatsink mounted the wrong way. Would not fit into the slot like that. Flip it around and you should be good.
 
Someone has eagle eyes! :D That detail went under the radar. :D

It fits like a glove in the slot. :D I also had a Slot A CPU that had that exact "problem". To be exact, the metalic clips are mounted "wrong" (the other way arround). While in certain situations the ends can interfere with some components, in this instance they cleared the motherboard. That CPU didnt look to be touched for over 21 years so I'm sure it came like that from factory.

To be safe I'll mount the clips in the "correct" way.

The heatsink has some prongs that dont allow to be mounted the other way arround. That heatsink will not be removed as it is not budging and I dont want to warp it. :D I dont need headaches. :D

It is untested but I'm 100% sure it works. That stuff is bulletproof. I've yet to find a dead slot 1 or A CPU. It will be needed to be treaded over by a tank and then maybe I'll ask myself if it works or not. :D

A pic I found in the Internet. http://lileenchantee.blog40.fc2.com/blog-date-201108.html
 

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GeForce4 Ti4600 vs GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
 
The CPU came from an ACER V66LA motherboard. The motherboard was banged up and incomplete so I took what I needed and I left it behind.

I removed the CPU from the retention bracket. :) It was put like that during transport. The CPU has a temperature sensor in the middle of the heatsink and a proprietary cable plug. I can mount a new fan or use the old one so this is no biggie.
one of the beauty in my collection is a V66LT 4MB from a Veriton AIO
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all caps in pristine condition board too, the 13.3" screen was busted but everything else worked ... ESS Solo-1 ahah i remember that one ...
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DIP switches fun and BX AGP set ( well the AGP "card" is integrated ... only 1 PCI/2PCI with riser as expansion ) the only annoying thing ... is the PSU connector :laugh: luckily the PSU was also perfectly working
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i already posted some pics of the thing installing and running WinXP back

yep :
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forgot, the CPU that was in :
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