Bios Upgrade - QDI SA3000 AGP User Manual

BIOS Upgrade

On rare occasions, it may be necessary to upgrade the video
BIOS on your QDI SA3000 card. In such a case, you will receive
a new BIOS Binary file and a utility called S3 Flash.
Follow these steps to upgrade your video BIOS:
Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Important: Do NOT reboot or power down the machine until
the message 'S3 Video BIOS has been updated' is displayed,
or it will cause the BIOS to be incompletely programmed,
resulting in a non-functioning graphic card.
After the new BIOS has been installed, restart your machine
normally. Please be sure to Hard Boot your system by either
pressing the Reset button or the Power button.
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Start your computer from MS-DOS system floppy disk,
or while Windows 95 is booting, press the key 'F8'
and select 'Command Prompt Only' from the start
menu.
If you have received the BIOS upgrade files. At DOS
prompt, create a directory in your hard disk, then copy
the upgrade files into this directory. change the
directory to the BIOS upgrade directory.
At the DOS prompt, type the following command to
install the new BIOS into the QDI SA3000 card's
Flash Memory
S3Flash xxx.ROM
xxx.rom is the BIOS BIN File you received. This
will load the BIOS image file into the card's BIOS
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