User guide

Flash ROM

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BIOS Flash Upgrade Utility

This chapter briefly discusses the Award BIOS Flash Upgrade utility, with

instructions to guide you through updating an Award BIOS. In the examples given

here, we use the file name newbios.bin to represent the new BIOS and the file name

oldbios.bin to represent the old BIOS. Note that these file names are only examples to

help you understand the updating process.

wdflash.exe commands are not case-sensitive. Upper- or lowercasing of command

letters in this manual is for clarity only.

Preparation

The upgrade process requires two files from Award:

1. The new BIOS file (e.g., newbios.bin)

2. The upgrade utility (awdflash.exe).

lthough you may conceivably use a different media for the files, this manual assumes

that you are using a floppy disk.

1. Create a bootable floppy disk.

2. Transfer the two Award files listed above onto the diskette.

Now you are ready to start the upgrade process.

WARNING

Do not interrupt the upgrade program while it runs! Interrupting the program leaves the

system without a BIOS and unusable. If by some unlikely chance the power goes off

during the few seconds the program requires to run, the system is left without a working

BIOS and needs a correctly programmed flash EPROM installed.

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