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Giga-Byte Technology Flash BIOS Utility
(Oct 12, 1997)
"STOP" Before you start PLEASE read the following information.
*** Especially for the GA-686LX,GA-686BLX, and GA-686DLX (or ANY board with AGP slot)
user.***
**** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF535A.exe,AF54.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP *****
IMPORTANT THIS is very IMPORTANT:
For those user who try to upgrade your GA-686LX,GA-686BLX, and GA-686DLX
(or ANY board with AGP slot) flash BIOS you have to use "af535a.exe" ONLY. This is IMPORTANT.
If you use any other version of flash rom programer it will destroy
your BIOS. Giga-Byte does not have responsibility for this wrong doing. So Please use af535a.exe for
**** 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 lastest Flash BIOS programer from Award(R).
Award(R) has suggested a way to recover the BIOS in case of failure
during the flash BIOS programing.
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 file name /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(R)'s web site at www.award.com.
******************************************************************************
To Program:
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)