Upgrading the BIOS
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Creating a Bootable Diskette

✏NOTE
If your drive A is an LS-120 diskette drive, you must use a 1.44-MB diskette as the bootable BIOS
upgrade diskette. The computer is unable to recover a BIOS from an LS-120 diskette.
1. Use a DOS or Windows 95 system to create the diskette.
2. Insert a diskette in diskette drive A.
3. At the C:\ prompt, for an unformatted diskette, type:
format a:/s
or, for a formatted diskette, type:
sys a:
4. Press
<Enter>.

Creating the BIOS Upgrade Diskette

Obtain the BIOS upgrade file as described in “Obtaining the BIOS Upgrade File” and then:
1. Then copy the BIOS upgrade file to a temporary directory on your hard disk.
2. From the C:\ prompt, change to the temporary directory.
3. To extract the file, type the name of the BIOS upgrade file, for example:
10006BI1.EXE
4. Press
<Enter>. The extracted file contains the following files:
LICENSE.TXT
BIOINSTR.TXT
BIOS.EXE
5. Read the
LICENSE.TXT file, which contains the software license agreement, and the
BIOINSTR.TXT file, which contains the instructions for the BIOS upgrade.
6. Insert the bootable diskette into drive A.
7. To extract the BIOS.EXE file to the diskette, change to the temporary directory that holds the
BIOS.EXE file and type:
BIOS A:
8. Press
<Enter>.
9. The diskette now holds the new BIOS files, the Intel Flash Update Utility, and the recovery
files.
Upgrading the BIOS
1. Boot the computer with the BIOS upgrade diskette in drive A. The flash memory update
utility screen appears.
2. Select
Update Flash Memory From a File.
3. Select
Update System BIOS. Press <Enter>.
4. Use the arrow keys to select the correct .bio file. Press <Enter>.