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Re: Motherboard ID : GA-586ATE Socket 7 PCI Intel Chipset

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From: Edward Lee Ah Yen
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
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Darren Rhodes wrote:
> 
> In article <830256779snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David@longley.demon.co.uk wrote:
> >Can anybody identify this motherboard?
> >
> >GA-586ATE
> >
> >BIOS missing
> >Intel PCI Chipset
> >Socket 7
> >6 SIMM sockets
> >4 PCI
> >4 ISA
> >On board I/O

If it has pipline cache it will have two chips soldered to the motherboard above the ZIF 
socket, and no plug-in sockets for L2 cache!

Their BBS is at:818-854-9340

You can download the flash utility:af.zip and latest BIOS:Ver 2.29 and the Triones 
Busmastering drivers Ver3.20 also for the GA-586ATE from their BBS site!

You can get to the web site at:www.giga-byte.com/gbt

> 
> Err, check out Choice Peripherals ad in PCW every month (p.54-55 in May
> issue) and I think you'll agree it's a GIGABYTE m/b.
> 
> >Odd thing is the power connector. It's non-standard and next to the ZIF
> >Same creamy colour as the ZIP with two rows of 8 pins then two jumpers
> >then two rows of 5 pins !?!?
> >
> >There are plastic grips at each end to hold some sort of cable in....
> >never seen one like this before...
> 
> Clearly you haven't cos it ain't the power connector socket!!! It's the
> VRE/VRM socket (Voltage Regulator Module) which confirms it as Socket 7.
> 
> >Also in need of a BIOS if anyone can identify the board.
> 
> The ad in PCW claims they're shipped with Award Flash BIOS.
>

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From: samuri@idirect.com (Edward Lee Ah Yen)
Subject: Re: Motherboard ID : GA-586ATE Socket 7 PCI Intel Chipset
Date: 1996/04/25
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