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    SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

    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)

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    Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

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

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      #3
      Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

      Is that the whole model name?
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        #4
        Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

        Originally posted by shovenose View Post
        Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what happens..
        .
        Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.soyo.com.tw.

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          #5
          Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

          Originally posted by PCBONEZ View Post
          Is that the whole model name?
          .
          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.

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            #6
            Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

            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
            Last edited by pfrcom; 11-18-2011, 05:37 PM.
            better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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              #7
              Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

              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.
              Last edited by bigbeark; 11-18-2011, 08:13 PM.

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                #8
                Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                Originally posted by bigbeark View Post
                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
                better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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                  #9
                  Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                  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?

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                    #10
                    Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                    Originally posted by bigbeark View Post
                    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
                    better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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                      #11
                      Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                      The connection has timed out







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





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                        #12
                        Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                        @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
                        Attached Files
                        better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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                          #13
                          Re: SOYO K8USA Bios Needed

                          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!
                          Last edited by bigbeark; 08-21-2012, 08:00 PM.

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