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BIOS RELEASE NOTES
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A08
Release Date: 09/05/95
The following changes were made to the A07 BIOS to generate the A08 BIOS:
1. Added support for an alternate version (A2) of the PCEB and ESC chips.
2. Changed NCR SCSI BIOS to version 3.06.00.
DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION
COPYRIGHT (C) 1988-1994, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BIOS RELEASE NOTES
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A07
Release Date: 07/07/95
The following problem in the A06 BIOS was corrected to generate the
A07 BIOS:
1. EISA Configuration Utility failed when clearing nonvolatile memory.
DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION
COPYRIGHT (C) 1988-1994, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BIOS RELEASE NOTES
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A06
Release Date: 06/22/95
The following problems in the A05 BIOS were corrected to generate the
A06 BIOS:
1. With CoSession software running under OS/2, system locked up when it
received a keystroke from a remote system through a serial port.
2. Under Banyan Vines with the Compaq Netflex-2 card installed, system
locked up when a Page Fault Exception occurred.
3. Embedded Diagnostics failed when SI parallel port card was set to 278h.
4. Embedded Diagnostics failed with Soundblaster AWE32 card installed. (The
test algorithm was changed to work around the Intel bug in the Timer.)
5. With the setup password enabled, pressing ALT-F was resetting all the
fields to factory defaults.
6. Embedded Diagnostics failed with a new revision of NCR 810 SCSR
controller chip.
7. A bug was causing the IDE controller to remain OFF when no IDE
drives were configured, regardless of the setting for the IDE
Controller in System Setup program. (The controller should turn OFF/ON
depending only on the setting of IDE Controller in System Setup.)
In addition, the following changes are included in the A06 BIOS:
8. Added support for INT 15h, function E820h for memory sizing.
9. Removed the "PASSWORD ENTRY" field from the second page of the
system setup screen.
DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION
COPYRIGHT (C) 1988-1994, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
BIOS RELEASE NOTES
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A05
Release Date: 03/14/95
The following change was made to the A04 BIOS to generate the A05 BIOS:
1. Added support for 75MHz Pentium processor and 256KB asynchronous
L2 cache.
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A04
Release Date: 02/14/95
The following changes were made to the A03 BIOS to generate the A04 BIOS:
1. Improved memory configuration algorithm to accomodate mismatch SIMMS.
However, in order to access all the memory in the system, SIMMS must
be installed in matched pairs.
2. Made miscellaneous changes to accomodate new version of Embedded
Diagnostics.
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A03
Release Date: 12/01/94
The following change was made to the A02 BIOS to generate the A03 BIOS:
1. Improved the cache sizing algorithm used for testing the secondary
cache in the embedded diagnostics.
System: PowerEdge SP/XE 5XX-2
Version: A02
Release Date: 10/26/94
This is the first shipping release.
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After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
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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