It used to be easy to search for and download older motherboard manuals, now it seems to be a miasma of clickbait and potential malware, just like the search for genuine device drivers became in the past. Does anyone have any good ideas to get around the bad guys? I am looking for a manual for Foxconn N15235, which is over 12 years old.
Seems to be the current 'rule of the day', got surprised couple days ago when needing a Dell driver which for several years had been www.support.dell.com starting point then click Support and put in the Service Tag. Their site has changed and to get anywhere required an account which did initially appear to be free but for technicians it has become cumbersome and for consumers/customers adds more time to their repair bill to pay for. I guess everything is fair in generating income.
I suggest you look at Foxconn N15235 Motherboard / Video Card if you haven't already - that page states that the N15235 is not a M-B identifier as such, and that there should be other numbers on the board that you can follow up. Rather interesting site for a nerd like me, even though i don't have one of their boards.
update: Whilst, as you say, most of the sites that offer manuals are click-bait for browser add-ons, this site
here does at least let you see the whole thing in its browser viewer first (had a bit of trouble getting site address onto page).
Last edited by mngerhold; 15 Aug 2021 at 03:49.
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