SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

[bigbeark]

I have one of these boards that does not post. I see no bad caps or damage, wonder if anyone has a copy of the bios for this one or a bios chip?

I have searched the web, but all the sites resolve to soyo, which of course is long gone.

(I know the existing shiny foil caps are caps are low quality)

[shovenose]

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/Soyo/
try that?

[PCBONEZ]

Is that the whole model name?
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[bigbeark]

Originally Posted by shovenose

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIOS/Soyo/
try that?

Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what happens..
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Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.soyo.com.tw.

[bigbeark]

Originally Posted by PCBONEZ

Is that the whole model name?
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The board is labelled Soyo Dragon Ultra. It uses ALI M1673 (raid) chipset. The Bios I have seen available is Soyo SY-K8USA DRAGON Ultra BLACK LABEL Bios 2aa5. This is a socket 754 board.

I am going to try to get this thing to boot again today. I'll locate my post card and let you know the results.

[pfrcom]

www.soyo.com.cn is still alive, but an uphill battle unless you read Chinese

From what I could glean, only support there is Intel, AMD & nVidia chipset boards

Link from shovenose refers to file 8USA2AA5.EXE, but Google for that name appears wild goose chase, majority linking to shonkware or to www.soyo.com.tw

DriverGuide site appears to have that file, if you don't mind paying their ransom

Or try Wayback Machine, although I had no luck after a few minutes effort

[bigbeark]

Thanks to all, I got lucky here: http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=7259.

This is Bios 2AA3: http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/arch...b/8usa2aa3.bin

Thanks PFRCOM for the Chinese Link.

I found on the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/200512011...om.tw/dl/bios/

This has the AA1 & AA2 Bioses for the K8USA, also has most K7 and P4 bioses, but you have to somehow tie the filename to the bios you are looking for.

[pfrcom]

Originally Posted by bigbeark

This has the AA1 & AA2 Bioses for the K8USA

I tried your link, clicked its K8 directory, and found AA1 through AA5 at http://web.archive.org/web/200512022...tw/dl/bios/k8/

I downloaded AA3 through AA5, in case you have no success

[bigbeark]

Hi Pfrcom, I saw those AA3 through AA5 there, but when I click on them, the Apache server is not able to access them.

You got the actual files?

[pfrcom]

Originally Posted by bigbeark

You got the actual files?

Went to attach them for you, discovered I'd downloaded "8usa2aa3.exe.htm" etc.

My apologies - the perils of doing Save Link As

[RJARRRPCGP]

The connection has timed out







The server at www.soyo.com.tw is taking too long to respond.





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moments.
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connection.
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that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

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The DNS exists! LOL! So it instead looks just like being blocked by a firewall!

[pfrcom]

@bigbeark - Did you get the K8USA to work ?

If so, attached an AA5 I got from a Chinese site - and I don't read Chinese, so couldn't tell what the site said about it

No assurances - all I know 7Zip extracted contents from the original EXE without issue, Avast anti-virus didn't object to anything, and I re-Zipped to make an acceptable attachment

[bigbeark]

I ordered a new BIOS chip but it made no difference. Thanks for the file, will attempt to do a BIOS update using the old BIOS chip, assuming I can get it to post.

My EVGA 939 SLI board just started dieing at Bios Code C1. What did I see right beside the RAM? EVERCON 16v 100uf caps! So I decided, what the hell, replace all the EVERCONs. I was amazed that the board booted after doing this!!

The SOYO is covered with the very same shiny crap caps.

When I get a chance I will replace them all. Lot of work for an obsolete board, but victory is sweet!