RouterBOARD 200 Series User's Manual
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Disable it if you are using newer RouterBOARD 200 boards (with 266MHz CPU clock) with external
PCI Ethernet cards.
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Enable for all boards produced since May 2003, there should be no issues with any PCI devices.
All of these practices has been defined experimentally, so they may or may not apply to your particular
case.
BIOS Upgrading
The BIOS is needed to recognize all the hardware and boot the system up. Newer BIOS versions might
have support for more hardware, so it's generally a good idea to upgrade the BIOS once a newer version
is available. You can upgrade the BIOS through the onboard serial port using XModem protocol (programs
available for all major OSs). For example, you can use HyperTerminal for Windows or Minicom for Linux to
upload the BIOS. The BIOS image is available for download on
If you are using a Microsoft Windows series operating system, you can use the remote upgrading
. This program uses EtherBoot protocol to send the image
to the RouterBOARD. See the respective manual section on how to use EtherBoot client on the
RouterBOARD 200 series computers.
a special disk image (this image is a standard raw image
you can write on a CompactFlash or on an ATA drive with a program like PhysDiskWrite for Windows or dd
for UNIX/Linux), which You can use to boot the RouterBOARD from. This program will upgrade the BIOS
to the latest version.
The BIOS upgrading is supported also from MikroTik RouterOS. The procedure is described in the
MikroTik RouterOS manual.
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