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82 Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Gateway ALR 7200 Server

Updating the BIOS

Flash memory simplifies distributing BIOS upgrades. If you need a new

version of the BIOS, you can download the BIOS update from the

Technical Support web site and install the new version from a disk.

Enter BIOS Setup by pressing

when prompted during startup.

Write down the settings for each of the fields. (At the end of the BIOS

update process, you will reset the fields to the default values.)

Exit the BIOS Setup program.

Download the correct BIOS file from the Technical Support web site.

Uncompress the contents of the BIOS file you downloaded, and copy

the contents onto a bootable diskette.

Place the bootable diskette containing the BIOS files into drive A, and

restart the system with the disk in the drive.

At the prompt, type:

PROGGTW

and press

NTER

The system asks you if you want to change the BIOS. Press

and then

press

NTER

Once the BIOS files have been loaded, remove the disk from drive A

and restart the system.

10.

As the system starts up, verify that the correct BIOS version is

reported.

11.

Enter BIOS Setup by pressing

when prompted during startup. Once

in BIOS Setup, re-enter the values you wrote down at the beginning of

this process.

If you do not set the CMOS values back to the correct values, the

system may function erratically.

To Update the BIOS

Important!

You may encounter a

CMOS checksum error or

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