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F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Contents of DOWNLOAD.ZIP *UPDATE????IMG.EXE Win-Image executable for Windows: Creates a bootable DOS based update disk on 1,44MB/3,5" floppy. *UPDATE????DD.BIN Image file for Linux (dd): Creates a bootable DOS based update disk on 1,44MB/3,5" floppy. \DOS\*.* Contains all update files for USB stick or other media README.PDF This information ???? .............................. Actual BIOS release number * …………………………. Motherboard type Contents of this README file CONTENTS OF DOWNLOAD.ZIP............................................................................. 1 CONTENTS OF THIS README FILE ....................................................................... 1 GENERAL REMARKS............................................................................................... 1 Known problems or restrictions .......................................................................................................... 1 LIMITS AND FEATURES OF F2 DOS BIOS ............................................................. 2 Default setup values.............................................................................................................................. 3 CRISIS DISK FOR BIOS RECOVERY....................................................................... 4 DOS BASED UPDATE PROCEDURE RELEASE 4.6............................................... 4 Running DOS BIOS update from external USB boot media.............................................................. 4 Running DOS BIOS update from CD-ROM.......................................................................................... 5 How to use DOS based flash tool "UPBIOS.EXE" ............................................................................. 5 General remarks This is a new BEETLE motherboard BIOS release for customer specific projects . BEETLE systems from production line usually will NOT contain this release. The BIOS is suited to run on WN motherboards "F2 STD” and “F2 ULV”. New features / improvements / highlights • Improved power management causes lower current on 5V stdby. Known problems or restrictions • It is not possible to start a pre-installed Windows XP if project BIOS is flashed. • No proper function of any other Windows installation guaranteed as well! • We did not test any Linux installation running this project BIOS! • There are lots of features not available, see table “limits and features…” • See also chapter FAQ at end of document… README.PDF 1 / 9 F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Limits and features of F2 DOS BIOS Function Support Comment PXE boot at BIOS runtime YES Note! No BIOS flash update over PXE possible! Legacy USB YES Legacy USB support over BIOS. Feature = boot (only) from USB mass storage! Some USB mouse and keyboard are available running MS-DOS, mass storage may be! We tested a handful of USB sticks – emulated hard disks; not floppy emulation! CDROM boot (XBDA) YES This code includes USB-CDROM boot. UDMA support YES For all devices (HDD, etc.) that support UDMA SATA controller YES No driver required. Serial ATA controller is compatible to legacy parallel ATA PS/2 mouse YES Available by y cable for keyboard/mouse LAN on motherboard YES Intel Pro100 VE desktop adapter driver needed! SM712 PLINK controller YES SM712 contains a VIDEO BIOS PROM that starts up while BIOS boot. Touch rerouting COM1/2 YES Supported only with WN sub module SM712 based. COM34 COM3 YES Fixed to “WN legacy” values I/O 3E8; shared IRQ10 bridge COM4 YES Fixed to “WN legacy” values: I/O 270; shared IRQ10 PCI riser PCIs upper YES Tested with WN PCI COM board in upper slot only! card PCIs lower YES WN PLINK controller based on SM712 in lower slot only! PCI SUB module YES Tested with SM712 2nd TFT WN PLINK controller only! PCI express NO Use riser card with 2 x PCI standard only! DMI NO DMI data remains if DOS BIOS is flashed; after return to STD BIOS DMI is available! ACPI NO Not required for MS-DOS. Onboard Sound NO Onboard sound is DISABLED by BIOS! Driver installation will fail!!! Legacy FDD NO No hardware support by motherboard Parallel port NO WN F2 motherboard does not provide parallel port; thus BIOS can not, too! Onboard graphics of Intel chipset does not support stretching (640x480 up scaling to 800x600 or 1024x768)!!! SM712 based controller do. We did some basic tests with MS-DOS 6.22 only; no guarantee for DR-DOS and others… README.PDF 2 / 9 F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Default setup values After corrupted checksum the BIOS will set its default to the following values: Main Primary Master: AUTO Primary Slave AUTO Secondary Master: AUTO Secondary Slave: AUTO Advanced Reset Configuration Data: NO Speaker Volume HIGH Large Disk Access Mode DOS Legacy USB Support ENABLED USB Time Out Value (HIGH) Internal LAN Controller ENABLED Onboard LAN Boot Prom ENABLED Quick Boot Mode DISABLED Video output to COM3 DISABLED Fan control Automatic Chipset Configuration SMART Device Monitoring DISABLED Boot-Video device PCI SLOT USB 2.0 Support ENABLED I/O Device Configuration Serial port A ENABLED Base I/O address 3F8 Interrupt IRQ4 Serial port B ENABLED Base I/O address 2F8 Interrupt IRQ3 Parallel port DISABLED Touch Screen Routing COM2: DMI Event Logging Clear all DMI event logs NO Event Logging ENABLED Security Set Supervisor Password NO PASSWORD SET Power Power State STAY OFF Wake On LAN DISABLED Wake On Modem Ring DISABLED Wake On Time DISABLED Hardware Monitor Boot Boot Order Follow Setup Order +Removable Devices +Hard Drive +CD-ROM Drive Network Boot IBA FE slot README.PDF 3 / 9 F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Crisis disk for BIOS recovery There is no crises disk available for project releases! Use standard (STD) BIOS crisis disk to recover from crashed BIOS update. DOS based update procedure release 4.6 There are some features of the actual DOS based update procedure: If any of these advanced features is wanted, you need to adapt the update floppy disk! See chapter How to use DOS based flash tool "UPBIOS.EXE" for further information about all options. DMI data will be preserved . Automatic start of BIOS update after boot up of floppy! You are not prompted to confirm flash update, but you may abort the automatic procedure, when asked. It provides output to external line displays for BEETLE with or without VGA adapter. Another feature of update procedure is the support of CMOS setup data save/restore . You can set setup options as wanted, than create an image file of BIOS setup data and after easily write the certain settings from image file to CMOS memory while BIOS flash update procedure! Running DOS BIOS update from external USB boot media The F2 BIOS supports DOS boot from external USB floppy, CD-ROM,… Unfortunately, most (all?) distributors of memory sticks do not provide any information about the boot ability of their devices. You need to buy & test… This is not a BEETLE restriction – most PC BIOS do show similar problems! How to create a bootable USB boot device for BEETLE? Most vendors provide a Windows based program to create bootable sticks. If not available, this may help you to do so: 1. Create a MS-DOS 6.22 (!) boot floppy and copy fdisk.exe and format.com to it 2. Install a BEETLE with D2 or E1 motherboard and internal (standard) floppy drive. To avoid confusion, it’s good practise to disconnect SATA/PATA hard disk drives! 3. Enable “USB legacy” mode in BIOS SETUP and boot DOS floppy from internal floppy drive … 4. Now, you can detect if your USB mass storage is supported or not: If the USB device emulates a hard disk, FDISK should present it If the USB device emulates a floppy disk, DOS should show a new drive letter 5. Use fdisk.exe and/or “format.com <drive>: /s” to create a bootable media. README.PDF 4 / 9 F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Running DOS BIOS update from CD-ROM Update disk releases since 4.0 and higher support bootable CD-ROM media for BIOS update. The recommended (and easiest) way to build an update CD is this: 1) Create bootable floppy disk from WN image and leave the floppy inside drive. 2) Start your favourite tool and build a bootable CD. When ask, choose “floppy disk emulation from floppy in drive”! How to use DOS based flash tool "UPBIOS.EXE" This information is also placed in README_4.TXT on floppy!! **************************************************************************** * * * How to use Flashtool "upbios.exe Version 4.x" * * * **************************************************************************** Chapters: ========= General Options Configuration Security Backflashing Plausability Examples General: ======== "Upbios 4.x" is designed for easy support of Phoenix(R) "phlash16.exe" flashtool. Update procedure is running automatically, configurable via "upbios.cfg" configurationfile and via arguments from commandline. All messages are minimized and optimized for use of 2x20 lines display. No need of keyboard input, but abort of procedure is possible. Beep support is provided for abort option (one doublebeep), successful operation (two doublebeeps), error messages (three doublebeeps). Options are selectable from commandline. It might be useful to create an "autoexec.bat" providing the complete commandline. Configuration is done via "upbios.cfg" configurationfile. README.PDF 5 / 9 F2 motherboard BIOS update „WN DOS 21/01“ Options: ======== Calling syntax: upbios [com3] [cdump] [cload] [t] [q] [p] [m n] [over] [anyway] Any options may be mixed, but if cdump is selected, no Bios update will be done. Note: Options from commandline will