FLASH BIOS UPDATES

UPDATING YOUR INITIO BIOS
You may need to update your Initio BIOS if:

  • Initio Technical Support recommends that you update the BIOS in order to fix a problem that you have encountered
  • Your computer system uses a motherboard that requires a different Initio BIOS.
  • If Initio adds new features to the BIOS

How Do I Update the Initio BIOS?
Initio has created an automatic FlashBIOS update program which you can download (see below).
Follow these steps to update the Initio BIOS:

  1. Power down your computer
  2. Insert the card into a PCI slot in your computer
  3. Power up your computer and boot to the DOS prompt
  4. At the DOS prompt, type the following:
    LOADBIOS BIOS_FILE.BIN

These files are for boards that have Flash BIOS. All other boards have factory preprogrammed EPROMS.

Listing of current Flash BIOS Updates (Last modified: 2/8/01)

NOTE: The following are compressed files in a ZIPPED format. For more information on updating the BIOS, see the README.txt file included with the BIOS update program.

Single Channel Boards
(v1.14)
9090U   9100U      
  9100A   9100UW    
Multi Channel Boards
(v1.10)
9200U   9400U   9520U  
  9200UW   9400UW   9520UW