IBM BoardView

Boardview .rar 182 KB Shared

Archive named for an IBM boardview, 182 KB in RAR format, without any model or board number given in the name. It may contain a boardview file for an IBM ThinkPad board or possibly viewer software, so inspect the contents after extraction. Boardview layouts let a technician locate parts, test points and connected nets on both PCB sides while tracing power rails or hunting a short. Open the extracted file in a viewer such as OpenBoardView or FlexBV and confirm it matches the board number printed on the PCB before relying on it.

The button opens the matching file on RM Schematics, or a source page if it is not catalogued there yet. The original attachment is from @biosarchive. Enginerys does not host this file.

How to open a .rar file

Compressed archive — the usual wrapper for a schematic + boardview pair or a BIOS + EC set.

7-ZipWinRARThe Unarchiver (macOS)

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