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Giga-Byte Technology Flash BIOS Utility (Feb 27, 1997)
**** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF52.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP *****
The utility AF.EXE ((AF52.EXE is for more recent BIOSes such as 5ATM.331,
5ATS.130, and 54AL.107. The use of the wrong version of the AF.EXE program
WILL NOT hurt your system BIOS, rather it will cause your system to freeze.
If you have used the wrong version of the AF.EXE program, simply reboot and
use the correct program.)) is used to update your Giga-Byte Technology
mainboard BIOS.
**** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF52.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP *****
The AF53.exe is the latest Flash BIOS programmer from Award.
Procedure for Recover a BIOS after Flash Procedure Fail.
Award has suggested a way to recover the BIOS in case of failure during
the flash BIOS programming.
How to restore BOOT BLOCK BIOS.
To restore a boot block BIOS, you need the following:
1. A floppy disk drive connected to the target system.
2. One bootable disk with the following files:
* The Award(R) flash BIOS program(afxx.exe, which xx is the version number).
* An BIOS binary for your board, so PLEASE SAVE the old BIOS file during
the BIOS upgrade.
* Autoexec.bat file containing the line afxx.exe saved old BIOS filename /Py /Sn.
3. Optional ISA/VESA VGA card in the target system.
Hopefully This can give you out of tough spot. (for further information
please go to Award's web site at www.award.com.
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Procedure for Flash BIOS Upgrade.:
1. Boot from a "clean" DOS v3.3 or higher system disk - no TSR or memory
managers, or if using DOS 6.X, during boot up "Starting MS-DOS," press the
[F5] key to bypass the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.
NOTE: DO NOT use Windows'95 safe mode & boot to DOS command prompt option
nor use a system boot disk created from Windows'95.
2. Type A:AF <filename.xxx> [Enter] Where <filename.xxx> is the full name
of the new unzipped BIOS file. Then follow the prompts.
3. The utility only can be used on the following Giga-Byte mainboards:
* a.GA-586AT (do not save old BIOS) GA-586AT/P (do not save old BIOS &
disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) b.GA-586AS (with an original BIOS
Version above 1.3x)
* c.GA-586ATE (do not save old BIOS) GA-586ATE/P(do not save old BIOS &
disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) d.GA-586AM (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst
CACHE if it is present)
* e.GA-586AVS (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present)
* f.GA-486AM
* g.GA-5486AL
* h.GA-586ATS/x(Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present)
* I.GA-586ATM (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* j.GA-586HX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* k.GA-586ATV (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* l.GA-586VX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* m.GA-586SVX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* n.GA-586DX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
* o.GA-686NX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)