ABIT BX6

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The BX6, also called AB-BX6, is a retail Slot 1 motherboard built by ABIT.

Be sure you don't confuse it with ABIT BX6 2.0 if you want to update the BIOS.

ABIT BX6 Slot 1 Motherboard


Specifications

CPU Support Chipset Memory Internal I/O Back Panel I/O BIOS Miscellaneous ABIT Engineered


Manual

Download the manual for ABIT BX6

ABIT BX6 manual (zipped PDF, 1.54 MiB)


Drivers

ABIT BX6 drivers can be downloaded here

part driver size date system
Chipset Intel INF v3.20.1008 1.22 MiB 2001/10/10 Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XP


BIOS

Download the latest BIOS update for ABIT BX6. Changelog is included below. For flashing the BIOS use awdflash 8.99 (DOS), AwardBIOS Winflash 1.94 (Windows), UniFlash (DOS) or flashrom (Unix/Linux) which can be found under flash tools. Please pay attention to the prerequisites and precautions.

2000/03/10 - BIOS QS (116 KiB)
  1. Fixes the incorrect capacity issue under Linux.
  2. Fixes the incompatibility issue with W2K.
1999/12/20 - BIOS MX
  1. Supports Celeron 533Mhz (66Mhz FSB) CPUs.
  2. Supports PIII 600Mhz (100Mhz FSB) CPUs.
  3. Supports 40GB harddisks and above.
1999/07/23 - BIOS MP
  1. Fixes the password function.
  2. Supports Socket 370 Celeron 500 Mhz CPU.
1999/07/07 - BIOS LW
  1. Fixes the password function.
  2. Supports Socket 370 Celeron 500 Mhz CPU.
1999/02/12 - BIOS JL
  1. Supports Socket 370 Celeron 433 Mhz CPU.
  2. Supports correct naming of Pentium III CPU.
1999/01/25 - BIOS HV
  1. Fixes the NEC ATAPI ZIP drive incompatibility problem.
  2. Supports the Intel Pentium III 450 and 500 Mhz (Katmai) CPU.
  3. Supports the Intel Celeron 366 Mhz up to 400 Mhz compliance.
  4. Supports up to an 8x clock multiplier.
  5. Solves the problem of Windows98 not being able to shut-down properly when the ACPI function is enabled.
  6. Supports DMI 2.3 . You have to input the parameter /CD to Clear DMI pool data while updating the BIOS. (e.g. A:AWDFLASH NEWBIOS /PY /SN /CC /CD)

EXTRA NOTE:

For Pentium III (Katmai) users, the BIOS will indicate PII EVEN if it is a PIII because the code was finished just prior to the unveiling of the new PIII name for the Katmai. This will be corrected in the next BIOS.
1998/11/23 - BIOS GX
  1. Updates the K/B default setting to 8Mhz to fix Microsoft Elite K/Bs.
  2. Changes the ACPI default setting to disable.
1998/10/20 - BIOS GQ
  1. Supports ACPI function.
1998/07/28 - BIOS EG
  1. Supports some kinds of display cards with the chipset of Mpact 2.
  2. Allows insertion of more than one display card on the mainboard & adds an Init Display First option in the BIOS for user to choose the primary display card.
  3. Supports the Celeron 300 & 333 CPUs with built-in cache.
1998/05/11 - BIOS DL
  1. Correction for Intel Celeron parameters.
  2. Correction for DRAM parameters and expanded support for more types of DRAM.
1998/04/17 - BIOS CW
  1. Supports Soft Menu II.
  2. Supports SDRAM CAS Latency Time in BIOS.
1998/04/10 - BIOS AM
  1. First release.


BIOS ID strings and BIOS messages for ABIT BX6 BIOSes are listed below.

BIOS ID string BIOS Message
02/21/2000-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-00
11/23/1999-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-MX
07/13/1999-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-MP
07/01/1999-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-LW
02/05/1999-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-JL
12/31/1998-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-HV
10/22/1998-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-GX
10/06/1998-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-GQ
07/10/1998-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-EG
04/27/98-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-DL
04/09/98-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-CW
04/01/98-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1AC-AM		 GREEN AGP/PCI/ISA SYSTEM
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Reviews / Links

Reviews, tests, articles and other related links for ABIT BX6

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