Upgrading the BIOS
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Creating a Bootable Floppy Diskette
1. Use a DOS or Windows
†
95 system to create the floppy disk.
2. Insert a floppy disk in floppy drive A.
3. At the C:\ prompt, for an unformatted floppy disk, type:
format a:/s
or, for a formatted floppy disk, type:
sys a:
4. Press
<Enter>
Creating the BIOS Upgrade Floppy Diskette
The BIOS upgrade file is a compressed self-extracting archive that contains the files you need to
upgrade the BIOS.
1. Copy the BIOS upgrade file to a temporary directory on your hard disk.
2. From the C:\ prompt, change to the temporary directory.
3. To extract the file, type the name of the BIOS upgrade file, for example:
10006BI1.EXE
4. Press
<Enter>
. The extracted file contains the following files:
LICENSE.TXT
README.TXT
BIOS.EXE
5. Read the
LICENSE.TXT
file, which contains the software license agreement and the
README.TXT
file, which contains the instructions for the BIOS upgrade.
6. Insert the bootable floppy disk into drive A.
7. To extract the
BIOS.EXE
file to the floppy disk, change to the temporary directory that holds
the
BIOS.EXE
file and type:
BIOS A:
8. Press
<Enter>
.
9. The floppy disk now holds the BIOS upgrade and recovery files.
Upgrading the BIOS
1. Boot the computer with the floppy disk in drive A. The BIOS upgrade utility screen appears.
2. Select
Update Flash Memory From a File
.
3. Select
Update System BIOS
. Press
<Enter>
.
4. Use the arrow keys to select the correct
.bio
file. Press
<Enter>
.
5. When the utility asks for confirmation that you want to flash the new BIOS into memory,
select
Continue with Programming
. Press
<Enter>
.
6. When the utility displays the message
upgrade is complete
, remove the floppy disk. Press
<Enter>
.
7. As the computer boots, check the BIOS identifier (version number) to make sure the upgrade
was successful.
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