Programming the flash rom – American Megatrends III User Manual

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Apollo III PCI Pentium ISA Motherboard User’s Guide

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Programming the Flash ROM,

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S752P.ROM

S752P.ROM resides on a floppy disk and contains the updated main BIOS
code. American Megatrends will provide this file when the AMIBIOS for the
Apollo III ISA motherboard must be updated.

S752P.ROM must be present in the root directory of the floppy disk before the
onboard Flash EPROM can be reprogrammed. The file that has the main
BIOS code must be named S752P.ROM.

Sequence of Operation The sequence of operation and expected behavior of the bootblock

BIOS code is:

Step

Expected behavior

1 Look for floppy
disk.

The system beeps one time before the BIOS
attempts to read from floppy drive A:.

2 Look for
S752P.ROM on the
floppy disk.

S752P.ROM must be in the root directory of
the floppy disk in drive A:. There is no beep
if successful.

3 Read the floppy
disk.

The floppy disk is read. There is no beep if
this step is successful.

4 Check for BIOS file
size.

The BIOS file size is checked. There is no
beep if this step is successful.

5 Check for Flash
EPROM.

The BIOS looks for an Intel i28F001BX-T
Flash EPROM. It does not beep if this step is
successful.

6 Erase the Flash
EPROM.

Two beeps sound when the BIOS begins
erasing the Flash EPROM.

7 Program the Flash
EPROM.

Three beeps sound when the AMIFlash Code
begins reprogramming the Flash EPROM.

8 Continue
programming the
Flash EPROM.

Four beeps sound when reprogramming has
been successfully completed.

9 AMIFlash does a
reset.

A CPU reset is generated to reboot the
computer.

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