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Optimal
Select the Optimal icon to load the best-case BIOS values. When reprogramming the BIOS,
select this option after running the flash programming utility and restarting the system to
ensure the new BIOS values are used.
Fail-Safe
Select the Fail-Safe icon to load the basic BIOS settings. System performance may be poor
when the Fail-Safe BIOS is selected. Use this mode only to troubleshoot problems with
booting the system.
Reprogramming the BIOS
You can use the flash programming utility (FPU) to reprogram the system board’s flash
EPROM with a new BIOS. When run, FPU first looks on the diskette in the floppy disk
drive for a valid BIOS.
The FPU is an MS-DOS utility that will not run in the Windows NT environment. The
system must be set to boot from the floppy disk drive (usually drive A).
When you reprogram the flash EPROM, resource assignments for ISA option boards and PC
Card devices are lost. Your system may have installed ISA option boards or PC Card
devices that require specific system resources such as interrupts (IRQs) or input/output (I/O)
port addresses. If so, after reprogramming the BIOS, you must run the BIOS Setup program
and reallocate the system resources as needed.
The FPU is available from the Support pages on the Intergraph Computer Systems World
Wide Web site and from the Intergraph Bulletin Board Service (IBBS). Look for the
FLASHUTIL
system software product for TDZ 2000 GL1 or ExtremeZ GL1 systems. See the
Preface of this document for details.
CAUTION Reprogramming the flash EPROM erases all the parameter settings in the BIOS. If you
customized any BIOS settings, record them before reprogramming the flash EPROM.
To reprogram the BIOS:
1. Record the BIOS parameter settings for your system. To do this, restart the system and
run the BIOS Setup program. Write down the setting for each parameter, and then exit
from BIOS Setup and let the system continue to boot.
2. Download the
FLASHUTIL
product for the TDZ 2000 GL1 or ExtremeZ GL1 to a
directory on your system from the Intergraph Computer Systems Support pages on the
World Wide Web or the Intergraph Bulletin Board Service (IBBS).