Drivers
Chapter:
Software and Drivers
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6 Software and Drivers
6.1 Drivers
The following table gives an overview of required and available drivers for some operating systems.
If a required operating system is not listed and the installation of the operating system failed, please ask
your distributor for a driver or another solution.
Attention
Please note, that you should install the latest service pack for the OS prior to driver installation.
Operating System
Chipset
VGA
USB
IDE
AC97
LAN
Windows 98/SE
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
Windows ME
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
Windows NT4
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
Windows 2000
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
OS/CD
Windows XP
CD
CD
CD
CD
CD
OS/CD
Linux
OS
CD
OS
OS
CD
OS
OS
Included in the operating system or no driver required.
CD
A driver will be delivered on a CD.
6.2 BIOS update
The program “AWDFLASH.EXE” of the company Phoenix is used to update the BIOS. It is important, that
the program is started from a DOS environment without a virtual memory manager such as for example
“EMM386.EXE”. In case such a memory manager is loaded, the program will stop with an error message.
The system must not be interrupted during the flash process, otherwise the update is stopped and the
BIOS is destroyed afterwards.
The program should be started as follows:
awdflash [biosfilename] /sn /cc /cd /cp
/sn
Do not save the current BIOS
/cc
Clear the CMOS
/cd
Clear the DMI information
/cp
Clear the PnP information
The erasure of CMOS, DMI and PnP is strongly recommended. This ensures, that the new BIOS works
correctly and that all chipset registers, which were saved in the setup, are reinitialized through the BIOS.
A complete description of all valid parameters is shown with the parameter “/?”.
In order to make the BIOS run automatically, the parameter “/py” must be added. This parameter
bypasses all security checks within the programming.
