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Part One, Updating BIOS with Q-Flash, Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards. - bios latest version

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English Part One: Updating BIOS with Q-Flash™ Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards. Some of Gigabyte motherboards are equipped with dual BIOS. In the BIOS menu of the motherboards supporting Q-Flash™ and Dual BIOS, the Q-Flash™ utility and Dual BIOS utility are combined in the same screen. This section only deals with how to use Q-Flash™ utility. In the following sections, we take GA-7VRXP as the example to guide you how to flash BIOS from an older version to the latestversion. Forexample, from F10 to F12. The BIOS file is F10 before updating Ame r ican R el e ase :0 8 /2 3/2 00 2 Meg a tre n d s AMIBIOS ( C) 19 9 9 Ame ri ca n Me ga tr en d 7VRXP F1 0 AMD- Ath lo n(tm) Pro ce sso r- 133 3MHz Ch eck Syste m He al th ! Ch ecki ng NVRAM...U pd ate OK 2621 44KB DEL:Ste up/Du al BIOS/Q-Fla sh F8 :Bo ot Me nu F1 2:N etw or k b oo t TAB:Lo go Au to -De tecti ng Pr i Master ..IDE Ha rd Di sk Au to- Detecting Pr i Sla ve...N ot Detected Auto- De te ctin g Sec Maste r ..ATAPI CD ROM Au to- Detecting Se c Sla ve.. N ot Detected ( C ) Amer ica n Meg atr end s Inc., 62-2003-001199-00101111-040201-KT333-GA7VRXP1- Entering the Q-Flash™ utility: Step1: To use Q-Flash™ utility, you mustpress Del in the bootscreen to enter BIOS menu. AMIBIOS SIMPLE SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 2.00 (C ) 2001 A merican M egatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserv ed STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP HARDWARE MONITOR & MISC SETUP CHIPSETFEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD POWER M AN AGEM EN T SETU P USER PASSWORD PNP / PCI CONFIGURATION IDE HDD AUTO DETEC TION LOAD FAIL-SAFE DE FAULTS SAVE & EXITSETUP LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFA ULTS EXIT WITHO UT SAVING ESC: Quit hifg : S elect Item F5: O ld V alues F6: Fail-S afe V alues F7: O ptimized V alues F8: Dual BIOS/Q-Flash F10:Sav e & Exit Load Fail-Safe Defaults - 73 - Technical Reference

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Technical Reference
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English
The BIOS file is F10
before updating
Entering the Q-Flash
utility:
Step1: To use Q-Flash
utility, you must press
Del
in the boot screen to enter BIOS menu.
AMIBIOS SIMPLE SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 2.00
(C ) 2001 A merican M egatrends, Inc. All Rights Reserv ed
STANDARD CMOS SETUP
INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS
BIOS FEATURES SETUP
HARDWARE MONITOR & MISC SETUP
CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
SUPERVISOR PASSWORD
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
USER PASSWORD
PNP / PCI CONFIGURATION
IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION
LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS
SAVE & EXITSETUP
LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS
EXIT WITHOUT SAVING
ESC: Quit
hifg
: S elec t Item
F5: O ld V alues
F6: Fail-Safe Values
F7: Optimized Values F8: Dual BIOS/Q-Flash F10:Save & Exit
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Part One:
Updating BIOS with Q-Flash
Utility on Dual BIOS Motherboards.
Some of Gigabyte motherboards are equipped with dual BIOS. In the BIOS menu of the
motherboards supporting Q-Flash
and Dual BIOS, the Q-Flash
utility and Dual BIOS utility are
combined in the same screen. This section only deals with how to use Q-Flash
utility.
In the following sections, we take GA-7VRXP as the example to guide you how to flash BIOS from
an older version to the latest version. For example, from F10 to F12.
7VRXP F10
AMD- Ath lo n(tm) Pro ce sso r- 133 3MHz
Check System Health !
Checking NVRAM...Update OK
262144KB
DEL:Steup/Dual BIOS/Q-Flash F8:Boot Menu F12:Network boot TAB:Logo
Auto-Detecting Pri Master..IDE Hard Disk
Auto-Detecting Pri Slave...Not Detected
Auto-Detecting Sec Master..ATAPI CDROM
Auto-Detecting Sec Slave.. Not Detected
( C ) American Megatrends Inc.,
62-2003-001199-00101111-040201-KT333-GA7VRXP1-
American Release:08/23/2002
Megatrends AMIBIOS (C) 1999 American Megatrend