Abit IP 35 Pro

[naquaada]

Hello,

I bought an Abit IP 35 Pro because it seems to be one of the latest board which supports two floppies A and B from 360K to 2.88 MB.
Unfortunately, in the last BIOS revisions the support for drive B: was removed, which is the most important function for me.
The last version with Dual Floppy support was Revision 14.

I don't have a Windows system, but I used Modbin 6 version 2.01.02 using the DOSBox Frontend Boxer on a Mac. I had two windows running at the same time, so I could compare the versions 14 and 17. In version 14 the BIOS Information screen looked is distorted, see the screenshots. In a hex editor I noticed that the two extracted ORIGINAL.BIN files of version 14 and 17 had errors. In the text which should be Phoenix Technologies were several non-ASCII characters, both revisions on different places. So I guess the files are faulty. If this is a problem related to DOSBox I can't say.

So I still have to ask if anyone create a updated BIOS which allows two floppies and support for Xeon Quadcores.
I'm planning to use the Low Power versions Xeon L5420 (2.5 GHz, 50W TDP) or L5430 (2.66 GHz, 50W TDP). 
The codename is Harpertown with the CPUID's 10674, 10676 and 1067A. It seems Yorkfield is using the same ID's.

I've attached the BIOS version 14 which is still supporting two floppies. Here are more infos.
Please change the creation date to the actual date in 2026 and use the revision DF for 'Dual Floppy'.


Greets, naquaada.