These manuals are no longer available at the websites of the
manufacturers. Some may still be around on other places on the
web. I realize it isn't complete, I'll try and put as much as
possible online here. Your best option to find a manual for an
old 486/586 motherboard is the WebHQ
motherboard manual page
If you cannot find it here or on WebHQ, there's a good chance it
is in the MOBOKIVE
copy here since Toby has had some server problems.
It seems the original mobokive.org is no longer recoverable
making this the last surviving copy.
At one time a person named Kuriaki had loads of files online, I was never able to collect the whole set, the parts I did manage to download can be found in The KURIAKI Archives index
About a year ago I started working together with a few enthousiastic people on a new project to document hardware. We think it's past its infancy now so I feel confident to link it in here:
Ultimate Retro Hardware Database
If you found something useful as a result of visiting this website I would appreciate a donation:
| Intel BIOS numbers | All I ever found about which board has which bios and what the OEM codes are. |
| OEM boards info | Compaq, Dell, eMachines (some), Gateway, HP, Medion, Mitsubishi/Apricot, Sony and Time/Tiny (in progress) info |
| Laptop Manuals | Donated by PJ (PurpleJulia at motherboards.org) Acer, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, NEC, Sony and Toshiba |
| Gericom laptop files | It seems they have taken their FTP-server offline permanently... |
| IBM EPRM | Electronic Pocket Reference Manual (info on older systems) |
| A-trend | ATC-1415, ATC-1425A, ATC-1425B, ATC-1442G and manuals + bioses for many many more |
| Abit | AG4, AN4, AN4R2, PB4, AH6, AT6 + more recent stuff in the mobokive |
| ADI | F4DXL-UC4D F4DXL-UC4.1 F4DXL-UC4.1D F4DXL-UC4.1DV F4DXP-UC5D F4DXP-UC5D-I TK8881 FA20 (+ bios) F5DX-TN1.1 |
| Anson/Ansoon/Amaquest | AL576-2 |
| ASK Technologies | AVX55C |
| BCM | LX770, FM540/FM541, FM567/FM568, SQ572, SQ573 |
| BEK | BEK-3739, BEK-3779, BEK-P405, BEK-P407, BEK-5723, BEK-5731 |
| Biostar | MB-1433UHT = Quantex MBD-4MZ2 |
| Chicony | CH-471A, CH-471B, CH-491E, CH-491K, CH-498B,CH-1451A, unknown board |
| CTX | Cybernote X953NL/Ezbook 700 |
| DataExpert | some manuals |
| Edom/Wintac | MV008, MV018, MV020, MV026, MV045, MV035D, MP032F, MP033, MP039, MP046, MP054, MP058, MP060, MP064, MP066, MP071, MP071B, MP080, MP082,W6BXA-O |
| ENPC | bioses and manuals |
| FIC | P4M-915GD1 P4M-915PD1 P4M-910GL manual |
| Flagpoint | P5VX |
| Flytech | several older manuals |
| FordLian | 5IHXA, 5IVXA, 5IVXB, 5ATXB, TX-5IB2, 5ITXA revA, 5ITXA revC, AGP-ALI, AGP-VIA, LX-370, ZX-370 and quite a few others |
| Freetech/Flexus | 486F23 486F30 486F38 586F56/586F60 586F61-PB |
| Full Yes Inc. | SIS471MU, 82430I, 82430IB, 82430VX, 82430TX, VT-580(VX), VP-597 (VP3), VIA-598 (MVP3), 82440FX,82440LX, 82440BX, FYI-5598TX |
| GCT SuperTek | some manuals and settings |
| IWill | P6AN |
| Jetway | J-435/J437 (zipped html page) J403 (scanned pages) + more recent stuff in the mobokive |
| Kaimei/Jamicon | KM-T5-T3 (=KM533A-AT), KM-T5-2, KM-T5-T1, KM-T5-V, KM-V5-VPX |
| LuckyStar | Manuals |
| M-tech (Rise) | R-547 Mustang manual pages |
| Olivetti | Service documents |
| Pine | Manuals |
| Procomp | Manuals & Bios |
| QDI / Legend | V4S471/G Ver 9.0,
V4P895P3/SMT/V5, V4P495L/V2, V4S471/250/V3, V4P895GRM/SMT
V1.1, P4U880A/IO Ver 1.1, P4U885GRN/MB4-P4U885P3 Ver 2.1, P5S5480P3 + more recent stuff in the mobokive |
| Rectron | RT-523SM, RT-523X, RT-5Si, RT-5Ti, RT-4S3 |
| Seritech | 486VLA |
| Shuttle/Holco | HOT-403H HOT-409 |
| Soltek | SL-KT400-C manual |
| Superpower, San-Li, Hope Vision | SP-586TB, SP-586TX, SP-A586B, SP-V586B and SP-V586A jumper settings, SL-586VP/SL-586V+ rev 1.0 and 1.1, SP-P2LXB, SP-P2BXA |
| SYE/Luckytech | SYE-P5MVP3 / SYE-5700/SYE-P55TX / SV-P55V |
| Taemung/Fentech | KBT5A-1 and KBT5A-2 settings / TB-486-OB settings + compatible bios. |
| TMC (Taiwan MyComp) | PCI54ST, PCI54IM,PCI54IT, PAT48AV and some manuals. |
| Totem | Manuals for several of their boards. Zipped word documents. |
| TriGem | This site is also holding the Trigem motherboard files, that may be useful to eMachine owners. |
| Viglen | 486 PCI board with on-board SCSI (DT-PCI) and more info |
| Vision Top Technologies | VT586VXB VT586TX |
| Vtech | bios strings to the boards, some manuals for 486 boards |
| ZIDA | manuals for several boards |
| ZZ-misc | unknown manufacturer boards |
last time a page has changed: August 20, 2011