Booting The Special Bios Boot Diskette - HP VXI Pentium 75000 Series Hardware Installation And Configuration Manual

Booting the Special BIOS Boot Diskette

Appendix D
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7. Using the #0 Phillips screwdriver, replace the eight Phillips-head
screws holding the sheet-metal cover to the chassis. Gently tighten
the screws being careful not to strip the threads.
8. Return the controller to its slot in the VXI mainframe.
Perform the following procedure to boot the special BIOS boot diskette and
write the system BIOS into the controller's flash memory:
Note
The video monitor is not operative during the recovery process. The
progress of the recovery is communicated to the operator via audible beeps
from the controller's internal speaker.
1. With the VXI mainframe powered down, insert the special BIOS boot
diskette into the controller's floppy disk drive.
2. Power on the VXI mainframe. The controller will start booting from
its floppy disk drive.
The boot program will issue three beeps when the actual recovery
process begins. The first series of beeps from the recovery program
denotes the reading of the System BIOS file. The last series of beeps
denotes the erasing of the flash memory and reloading of the BIOS
code. A final long beep denotes the successful recovery of the System
BIOS and that the system is about to reset itself.
Note
If the system will not boot from the floppy diskette and the system has SO
DIMM installed in only the right memory bank (bank 1), move the memory
from bank 1 to bank 0 (left bank) and retry this procedure. See Appendix E,
"Installing Additional DRAM Memory", for instructions on how to move
the memory.
3. When the final long beep has been issued and the system reset begins,
you must immediately power down the VXI mainframe. Otherwise,
the boot from the special BIOS boot diskette will start again and the
recovery process will repeat.
4. Remove the HP VXI Pentium Controller from the VXI mainframe
and take it to a static-free workstation in order to remove the jumpers
you installed earlier.
Note
Both jumpers must be removed to prevent later accidental writing of the
System BIOS.
Installing BIOS Software 59