Creating A Bootable Floppy Disk; Creating The Bios Upgrade Floppy Disk; Upgrading The Bios - Intel DK440LX Product Manual

Upgrading the BIOS

Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk

NOTE
If your drive A is an LS-120 diskette drive, you must use a 1.44-MB floppy diskette as the bootable
BIOS upgrade floppy disk. The computer is unable to recover a BIOS from an LS-120 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 Disk

Obtain the BIOS upgrade file as described in "Obtaining the BIOS Upgrade File" and then:
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>
LICENSE.TXT
BIOINSTR.TXT
BIOS.EXE
5. Read the
LICENSE.TXT
BIOINSTR.TXT
6. Insert the bootable floppy disk into drive A.
7. To extract the
the file and type:
BIOS.EXE
BIOS A:
8. Press
<Enter>
9. The floppy disk now holds the new BIOS files, the Intel Flash Update Utility, and the recovery
files.
Upgrading the BIOS
1. Boot the computer with the BIOS upgrade floppy disk in drive A. The flash memory update
utility screen appears.
2. Select
Update Flash Memory From a File
3. Select
Update System BIOS
4. Use the arrow keys to select the correct
58
.
. The extracted file contains the following files:
file, which contains the software license agreement and the
file, which contains the instructions for the BIOS upgrade.
file to the floppy disk, change to the temporary directory that holds
BIOS.EXE
.
. Press
<Enter>
.
.
file. Press
.bio <Enter>
.