B&R Industries Power Panel 300, User Manual

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3.3 aPCI firmware upgrade disk
A software tool for backing up or upgrading aPCI firmware can be downloaded directly from the
service portal of the B&R homepage (
www.br-automation.com ).
3.3.1 Procedure
The following steps should be taken to upgrade the aPCI module firmware:
• Create bootable media.
• Copy the contents of the *.zip file to the bootable media. If the B&R upgrade was already
added when the bootable media was created using the B&R Embedded OS Installer, then
this step is not necessary.
• If there are already aPCI modules connected to the Power Panel and BIOS V1.04 is
installed, then the file name can be determined automatically by XFLASH.EXE.
Otherwise, the filename is queried by XFLASH.EXE or a default file name is used:
"apci1.rom" for aPCI slot 1, "apci2.rom" for aPCI slot 2 -> the aPCI firmware file must be
renamed beforehand!
• Connect the bootable media to the Power Panel and reboot the device. See section
"Motherboard device configuration - drive configuration" on page 437 for Power Panel
devices for the necessary settings for the Power Panel device when booting from a
diskette.
• The following start menu will be shown after booting:
Information:
In MS-DOS, Win95 and Win98, a blank HD disk can be made bootable using the
command line command "sys a:" or "format a: /s".
Information concerning creating a bootable diskette in Windows XP cab be found on
page 497.
Information concerning creating a USB flash drive for a B&R upgrade can be found
on page 499.
Information concerning creating a CompactFlash card for a B&R upgrade can be
found on page 501.
Information:
The appropriate aPCI firmware files are available from B&R.