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If your MBA is integrated into the system BIOS you must
contact your PC vendor for updates.
Command Line Options
Although you can use MBAFLASH interactively, you can also automate some of the
process using command line options. This feature is helpful if you wish to use
MBAFLASH as part of a batch file. The command line options are:
Usage: mbaflash [.ROM Filename] [/?] [/p] [/b] [/0] [/sX]
options:
.ROM Filename - filename of a .ROM file that you wish to program into
your ROM chip instead of using the MBA version that is
within MBAFLASH.EXE
/? - show this help
/p - display no prompts
/b - do not create a backup of current ROM contents
/0 - reset all MBA options to default values after updating MBA
/sX - if multiple NICs with MBA are in the PC, select MBA number X in the
list
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If you are using Windows, MBAFLASH operates only in MS-DOS
real mode, not from a DOS window.
If your NIC does not support updateable ROMs, you must remove the NIC from
the PC and replace the ROM chip with a newer version.
When you execute MBAFLASH on a PC containing more than one NIC, MBAFLASH
will display a selection menu which lists the NICs that it finds. You can then select
the NIC that you wish to update with MBA software. The selection menu will show
some technical information on each NIC; such as the PCI Device and Vendor IDs,
the PCI Bus and Slot numbers, and the name of the NIC. You may use this
information to identify the specific NIC that you wish to select. You may also use
the /s command line option to automatically select a NIC from the selection menu
list.
Restoring a Previously Backed-up
Version
The MBAFLASH utility contains within itself MBA software code that it programs
into the ROM chip on your NIC. You can override this self-contained MBA software
and instruct the MBAFLASH utility to use another version of MBA software instead.
To do this you must specify, on the command line, the filename of the .ROM file
that contains the MBA software that you want the MBAFLASH utility to use; for
example:
mbaflash 8109401.ROM
This method is used to restore a backup version of ROM code that was created by
the MBAFLASH utility. When you use the MBAFLASH utility to update your ROM, it
asks you whether you wish to make a backup of the current software in your ROM
before it programs your ROM with a different version. If you answer Yes to this
prompt, the MBAFLASH utility creates a .ROM file that contains the backup
version. If you wish to go back to the backup version, you simply run the
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