User Guide

AWARD BIOS
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3.14 NCR SCSI BIOS and Drivers
The NCR 53C810 SCSI BIOS resides in the same flash memory chip as the
system BIOS. The onboard NCR SCSI BIOS is used to support NCR 53C810
SCSI control card without BIOS code.
The NCR SCSI BIOS directly supports DOS, Windows 3.1 and OS/2. For
better system performance, you may use the drivers that come with the NCR
SCSI card or with your operating system. For details, refer to the installation
manual of your NCR 53C810 SCSI card.
3.15 AWARD BIOS Flash Utility
The AWARD Flash utility allows you to upgrade the system BIOS. To get the
AWARD Flash utility and the upgrade BIOS file, contact your local distributor
or visit our homepage at http://www.aopen.com.tw . Please make sure that
you have the correct BIOS ready, the BIOS filename is normally like
AX6FR100.BIN, which means model AX6F BIOS revision 1.00.
There are three useful programs, Onboard IO chip check utility, Checksum
utility CHECKSUM.EXE and AWARD Flash utility AWDFLASH.EXE. Follow
the procedures below to upgrade your BIOS.
[CHECKSUM.EXE]
This utility will help you to determine if the BIOS has been downloaded
correctly or not.
1. Execute
C:> CHECKSUM Biosfile.bin
Biosfile.bin is the filename of the BIOS code.
2. The utility will show "Checksum is ssss".
3. Compare the "ssss" with original checksum posted on Web or BBS. If they
are different, please do not proceed any further and try to download the
BIOS again.
[IO.EXE]
This utility will help you to determine the model of onboard IO chip, as well as
BIOS version. Make sure the BIOS you download supports the onboard IO
chip and the BIOS version is later than the current onboard BIOS.