A4 Motherboard Bios Flash - Agilent Technologies Infinium DCA 86100A Service Manual

A4 Motherboard BIOS Flash

Service Note 86100C-03
Description This procedure flashes the BIOS on the instrument's motherboard and is usually performed as
part of replacing the A4 Motherboard assembly. When replacing A4, refer to the complete proce-
dure
0960-2521) have been replaced with the new motherboard design (0960-2568). When installing
this newer design motherboard, the BIOS must be flashed. The older design motherboards have
four PCI slots; the new design has three PCI slotes and one AGP slot.
Serial Numbers 86100C instruments with serial number MY45030386 and earlier were shipped with the older
design motherboards.
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Required Equipment
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Procedure Create a Boot Disk
1 On the Test System's controller (or other computer) insert a 3.5-inch disk for use a boot disk.
Format the disk.
2 On the Agilent Intranet, go to the following web page. If you are unable to access this URL,
contact dsa_support@agilent.com for more information.
3 On the web page, locate the 86100B/C BIOS FLASH for 0960-2521 AND 0960-2568 section that
includes links for the following three files:
4 Right-click each of these three files and select Save Target As to save the files to 3.5-inch boot
disk.
Flash the Bios
5 Connect an external USB 3.5-inch drive to the instrument's front panel (86100C) or rear panel
(86100B).
6 Insert the 3.5-inch BIOS disk that you created into the external USB drive and turn on the
instrument. The instrument automatically starts the boot process from the external disk.
C A U T I O N Do not turn off power or reset the system during this process.
7 When the process completes, the instrument automatically restarts. Remove the external 3.5-inch
drive.
8 When the instrument's displays the entry screen, you will see DEL to enter SETUP on the bottom
of the screen, press the Delete key. This enters the CMOS Setup Utility, which is shown in
6-14.
"To install the motherboard" on page
USB 3.5-inch disk drive
Non-USB keyboard
Non-USB mouse
http://lwd.marketing.agilent.com/Service_Support/Product_Support/86100/
mainframe_support_ information.htm
815gag10.bin
AUTOEXEC.BAT
AWDFLASH.EXE
7-31. Older design motherboards (0960-2481 and
Instrument Modifications
A4 Motherboard BIOS Flash
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