Giga-Byte Technology Flash BIOS Utility (Oct 12, 1997) "STOP" Before you start PLEASE read the following information. *** Especially for the GA-686LX,GA-686BLX, and GA-686DLX (or ANY board with AGP slot) user.*** **** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF535A.exe,AF54.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP ***** IMPORTANT THIS is very IMPORTANT: For those user who try to upgrade your GA-686LX,GA-686BLX, and GA-686DLX (or ANY board with AGP slot) flash BIOS you have to use "af535a.exe" ONLY. This is IMPORTANT. If you use any other version of flash rom programer it will destroy your BIOS. Giga-Byte does not have responsibility for this wrong doing. So Please use af535a.exe for **** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF52.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP ***** The utility AF.EXE ((AF52.EXE is for more recent BIOSes such as 5ATM.331, 5ATS.130, and 54AL.107. The use of the wrong version of the AF.EXE program WILL NOT hurt your system BIOS, rather it will cause your system to freeze. If you have used the wrong version of the AF.EXE program, simply reboot and use the correct program.)) is used to update your Giga-Byte Technology mainboard BIOS. **** IMPORTANT NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY(AF52.exe) HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP ***** The AF53.exe is the lastest Flash BIOS programer from Award(R). Award(R) has suggested a way to recover the BIOS in case of failure during the flash BIOS programing. How to restore BOOT BLOCK BIOS. To restore a boot block BIOS, you need the following: 1. A floppy disk drive connected to the target system. 2. One bootable disk with the following files: @ The Award(R) flash BIOS program(afxx.exe, which xx is the version number). @ An BIOS binary for your board, so PLEASE SAVE the old BIOS file during the BIOS upgrade. @ Autoexec.bat file containing the line afxx.exe saved old BIOS file name /Py /Sn. 3. Optional ISA/VESA VGA card in the target system. Hopefully This can give you out of tough spot. (for further information please go to Award(R)'s web site at www.award.com. ****************************************************************************** To Program: 1. Boot from a "clean" DOS v3.3 or higher system disk - no TSR or memory managers, or if using DOS 6.X, during boot up "Starting MS-DOS," press the [F5] key to bypass the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. NOTE: DO NOT use Windows'95 safe mode & boot to DOS command prompt option nor use a system boot disk created from Windows'95. 2. Type A:AF <filename.xxx> [Enter] Where <filename.xxx> is the full name of the new unzipped BIOS file. Then follow the prompts. 3. The utility only can be used on the following Giga-Byte mainboards: a.GA-586AT (do not save old BIOS) GA-586AT/P (do not save old BIOS & disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) b.GA-586AS (with an original BIOS Version above 1.3x) c.GA-586ATE (do not save old BIOS) GA-586ATE/P(do not save old BIOS & disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) d.GA-586AM (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present) e.GA-586AVS (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present) f.GA-486AM g.GA-5486AL h.GA-586ATS/x(Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present) i.GA-586ATM (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) j.GA-586HX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) k.GA-586ATV (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) l.GA-586VX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) m.GA-586SVX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) n.GA-586DX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE) o.GA-686NX (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)Download Driver Pack
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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