1. Caution:
    If your system is working fine and without any conflict, we don't recommend you to update the BIOS. We strongly recommend that you only upgrade the BIOS when you are in trouble, or you find the BIOS modified items are useful to you. New BIOS may have the possibility to bring you incompatibility problems because we can't guarantee all the products in the market are always compatible to Award BIOS. Besides, incorrect operation of flash procedure may also result in damaging the board. This company is not responsible for any damages caused from the result of end-users flashing their Bios    .
  1. MAKE SURE YOUR BOARD’S TYPE:
    Before you download the BIOS, you should know the type of your motherboard and the version of your motherboard, flash incorrect BIOS might also result in damaging your board. (For example, you can’t flash the Titanium IB BIOS to the Titanium IB+ motherboard, or 2.x version BIOS to 1.x version motherboard, and etc.) You may have two ways to identify the type of your board and the version of your board:
    1. Identify the type of your board on the edge of the board beside ISA slot. And record all of those Word. (e.g. you can find ‘P5I430TX TITANIUM I B+’ beside the outside ISA slot of your motherboard. And you have to record all of those letters down, not only the ‘P5I430TX’, but also ‘TITANIUM I B+’.)
    1. Identify the BIOS version during system boot-up. (e.g. when you start up your computer, you can find ‘P5I430TX/T1B+ BIOS V1.4SL MAR.17,1998’ shows on your screen, the ‘v1.4SL’ is the bios version of your motherboard.)
    1. Identify the PCB version from the motherboard marking. (e.g. if you find a marking that printed on the edge of the board as v1.0(s1.3), then this is a v1.0 version motherboard too.) For this v1.0 version motherboard, you may upgrade to BIOS v1.x series. e.g. BIOS v1.1, v1.2 or etc. The PCB version is matching to the BIOS version in our products.
  1. STEPS OF FLASH BIOS:
    1. Download the correct xxx.ZIP file and extract it. It may include a BIOS binary file xxx.BIN, flash utility AWDFLASH.EXE or FLASH.EXE and a README file. Please read the README file carefully.
    2. Prepare a DOS 6.2x bootable disk (or windows 95 dos bootable disk) and don't include any AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS file, then save the above files to this diskette.
    3. Enter BIOS setup and record any setting that you have changed before, then Load Setup Default to resume the default setting. Set "Boot Sequence" to "A, C, SCSI" in BIOS FEATURE SETUP, and disable the "System Bios Cacheable" in CHIPSET FEATURE SETUP. You must record all of bios setting especially PCI IRQ setting and serial & parallel port setting etc.. . Finally save and exit BIOS setup.
    4. Turn the system off and then turn the system on. Let the system boot up from the prepared diskette and type the command at DOS prompt as following:

      A:\>AWDFLASH xxx.BIN <enter>
      (Note: the xxx.BIN should be the file you downloaded)

    5. The first question will ask you whether you want to back up the original BIOS from your system to a file. Normally, you may answer "N" to the question because the original BIOS file can be found on the diskette that bundle with your motherboard when purchasing.
    6. The second question need you to confirm to update the BIOS, you need to press "Y" to confirm updating.
    7. Once the update is done, you need to power off and on for the system.
    8. Go back to the BIOS setup and Load Setup Default once again, then change back the settings that you have recorded before.
    9. Save and exit the BIOS setup and let the system boot up successfully.
  1. SOME PROBLEMS AFTER FLASH THE BIOS:
    If there is no display after flashing the BIOS, but you can still hear some beep sound from the system and the floppy disk drive is still activated, then not all are lost. You can try the following method to recover the system:
    1. Prepare a bootable floppy disk with an AWDFLASH utility and BIOS binary file in the disk (you can use the prepared diskette that mentioned in Step 3).
    2. Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the diskette with the following command line:

      AWDFLASH xxx.BIN /SN /PY
      The options /SN /PY will answer the questions automatically that you would normally have to answer with "no" or "yes". That way the system will boot up from the floppy disk, program the BIOS and restart the computer all on it's own. But it will take a while to carry out the procedure, don't turn off the system, just wait for the system to restart again.

    3. If you want to see what it does, you can use an ISA VGA card instead of PCI or AGP. If you don't have any ISA VGA card, you still can fix the BIOS in blind mode (no screen, but the BIOS is flashed by the Auto-run diskette). After the motherboard reboot itself, the floppy disk can be taken out and your system should be recovered. However if that doesn't work then the motherboard has to be returned to your vendor.
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