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AST RESEARCH, INC. SOFTWARE BULLETIN # 0281 12/16/97
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TITLE: Advantage! 62x System BIOS v1.04
FILENAME(S) / PART NUMBER(S) / DESCRIPTION(S):
05576035.EXE / 905576-035 / Advantage! 62x System BIOS, v1.04
SUMMARY
File 05576035.EXE contains version 1.04 of the Advantage! 62x
System BIOS.
RESOLUTIONS
Version 1.04 contains the following resolutions:
Fixed the system unable to detect CD-ROM if CMOS was corrupted.
Fixed the issue where Windows 95 could not detect a Plug-n-Play (PnP)
printer when the parallel port was set to ECP mode.
Fixed the issue where the system was unable to reallocate resource used by PCI
device (e.g., IRQ 15) to the system board ISA devices.
Fixed the Western Digital Phoenix drive.
Fixed the issue with video cards that failed at POST 63.
Fixed the issue with the 3Com card which showed memory failure when
the bus master continued at warm boot.
ENHANCEMENTS
Version 1.04 contains the following enhancements:
Upgraded the video BIOS from 2.04 to 2.07.
Fixed the year 2000 issue where the date was not reported correctly
when it changed from year 1999 to year 2000.
PREVIOUS RELEASE(S)
Version 1.03 contained the following resolutions and enhancements:
System hang problem when the Shuttle Pocket Adapter installation program tried to sense the parallel port, if the parallel port was
set to Enhanced mode in SETUP.
Reported 10-bit address decode for devices on SMC chip (floppy
controller and COM ports).
The BIOS reported POST error 12.31 if both floppy drive types were
set to "None" and the onboard floppy adapter was set to "Add-in"
but no add-in floppy controller was installed.
BIOS data area showed two serial ports after warm boot.
Interlink was unable to allocate ports.
Timeout fix for the Western Digital 2.1GB drive.
Added Suspend mode support in Win95 APM in order to pass Win95
logo certification.
Enhanced IDE drive detection logic. This fixed intermittent hard
disk not found problem at power up.
Added 2-second delay period prior to entering Suspend mode.
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Version 1.02 contained the following resolutions and enhancements:
Fixed problem of configuring Plug-and-Play modem card. The modem card was always
configured at COM1.
Incorporated the new SiS VGA BIOS 2.02.
Previous releases also contained the following resolutions and enhancements:
Fixed the problem in SETUP where the number of heads of IDE drives
was not reported correctly on WD 32500.
Added system BIOS part number field in SETUP.
Removed COM2 port from BIOS SETUP.
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
501964
501965
501969
501973
501974
501975
501976
503062
503189
503197
503226
503310
NOTES
AST highly recommends a backup of all data not originally on the
computer before performing any BIOS update.
For information on installing this update, please view the
README.TXT file that accompanies the update.
You can download this file from the following services:
AST WWW Site: http://www.ast.com
AST On-Line! BBS*: See IB0001.TXT
CompuServe: GO: ASTFORUM
Prodigy: JUMP: ASTSUPPORT
* Refer to IB0001.TXT for a list of AST's international BBS
numbers.
To decompress this file, create a temporary directory on your
hard drive, copy the downloaded file to that directory, and run
the file.
TAN 001816EL
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