Reprogramming The Bios - Intergraph InterServe 8000 Setup Manual

Reprogramming the BIOS

Use the Flash Programming Utility (FPU) to reprogram the system board's flash EPROM
with a new BIOS. When run, the FPU first looks on the diskette in the floppy disk drive for
a valid BIOS. The FPU is an MS-DOS utility that will not run in the Windows NT
environment. Use the SYSUTIL diskette delivered with your system to boot the system into
MS-DOS. The system must be set to boot from the floppy disk drive (normally drive A) to
use these utilities. If necessary, refer to "Changing the System Boot Sequence" in this
chapter.
Reprogramming the BIOS erases all the parameter settings in the BIOS. If you customized
any of the BIOS parameters, especially for ISA adapters, record them before installing the
new BIOS. After reprogramming the BIOS, you must reset the customized parameters
manually.
To reprogram the flash EPROM:
1. Connect to the Intergraph Bulletin Board Service (IBBS). Refer to the Preface for
instructions.
2. From the TOP menu, go to Intergraph Product Centers, Systems and Networking, File
Libraries, and Delivered Drivers; then select the appropriate operating system and
hardware platform.
3. Choose Find File to search for the
4. Extract the files bundled in
.\BIN
.\
DISK
BOOTFLOP
INSTALL
MANIFEST
README
5. Insert a blank floppy diskette into the floppy disk drive.
6. At the MS-DOS command prompt, change to the directory containing the extracted
files, if they are not located in the current directory.
7. Type in the following to create an MS-DOS bootable floppy that contains the flash
utility and the BIOS files:
md c:\temp
install.bat
8. Shut down and power off the system; then restart the system.
FLASHPROG
1
.
EXE
.
BAT
.
TXT
.
TXT
product; then download it to your system.
FLASHPROG
using an unzip utility. contains:
FLASHPROG
91