Entering The Q-Flash Utility - Gigabyte GA-8VT880 Ultra User Manual

Part One:
Updating BIOS with Q-Flash
Some of Gigabyte motherboards are equipped with dual BIOS. In the BIOS menu of the
motherboards supporting Q-Flash
combined in the same screen. This section only deals with how to use Q-Flash
In the following sections, we take GA-7VRXP as the example to guide you how to flash BIOS from
an older version to the latest version. For example, from F10 to F12.
The BIOS file is F10
before updating
™
Entering the Q-Flash utility:
Step1: To use Q-Flash ™ utility, you must press Del in the boot screen to enter BIOS menu.
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STANDARD CMOS SETUP
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
PNP / PCI CONFIGURATION
LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS
LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS
ESC: Quit
F7: Optimized Values
GA-8VT880 Serial Motherboard
™
Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards.
™ and Dual BIOS, the Q-Flash
American Release:08/23/2002
Megatrends AMIBIOS (C) 1999 American Megatrend
7VRXP F10
AMD-Athlon(tm)Processor-1333MHz
Check System Health !
Checking NVRAM...Update OK
262144KB
DEL:Steup/Dual BIOS/Q-Flash F8:Boot Menu F12:Network boot TAB:Logo
Auto-Detecting Pri Master..IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting Pri Slave...Not Detected
Auto-Detecting Sec Master..ATAPI CDROM
Auto-Detecting Sec Slave.. Not Detected
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AMIBIOS SIMPLE SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 2.00
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
HARDWARE MONITOR & MISC SETUP
SUPERVISOR PASSWORD
USER PASSWORD
IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
SAVE & EXIT SETUP
EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
hifg: Select Item
F5: Old Values
F8: Dual BIOS/Q-Flash
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
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™ utility and Dual BIOS utility are
™
utility.
F6: Fail-Safe Values
F10:Save & Exit