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Hi folks, I've recently obtained an LGA1155 socket PC for free from a local fb group, my intention was to harvest the case it's in for a cheap gaming build to sell on, and give away or sell on the internals in a cheaper case for someone who needs it as from what I could tell it was perfectly good hardware.

Intel i5 2400
8GB of cheap DDR3
1TB 7200rpm HDD

Nothing special, but for a granny or someone who's broke, a perfectly sensible old PC.

Cue my surprise when it turns out (after testing the hard drive and both RAM sticks separately) that it turns out the motherboard is seemingly one of a few LGA 1155 boards I've found (through reddit and various forums) that repeatedly throws up KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BSODs on a fresh install of Windows 10.

The main solution I keep encountering on related threads is to update the BIOS, but there's my issue: this is a Foxconn board and they killed their site in 2019. I haven't been able to find any consistent archive of the files from their website and I'm not even sure if a BIOS version newer than what is already installed for this board exists.

Foxconn H67M-S/H67M-V/H67 currently running BIOS version A48C4S04

It's an old AMI BIOS, but apart from what I've given here, I really have no clue if this can be saved beyond making a Linux machine out of it. I'd be cool with that, but even the desperate tend to look at me like I've got three heads if I offer them a Linux PC.

If anyone has a line on whether these Foxconn files are available out there somewhere, they'd be helping to stop one more perfectly good PC from likely becoming e-waste.