How to Install & Update Chaintech BIOS
Chaintech is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer that produces motherboards, graphics cards, memory modules, flash memory and various other computer hardware components. Your computer's Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) initiates the computer hardware before the system boots. Occasionally it may be necessary to update the firmware of the motherboard BIOS to be compatible with newer programs or applications. You can install the updated Chaintech BIOS through a process called BIOS flashing, which requires a floppy disk drive.
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Instructions
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Open your Web browser, and download the driver-free BIOS flashing boot disk file (see Resources). Save the file to your desktop. This file allows you to create a Windows boot disk, which you must have to update the BIOS.
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Insert a blank floppy disk into your floppy disk drive, and double-click the downloaded file to create a Windows boot disk. Remove the bootable floppy disk once the process finishes, and insert a new blank floppy disk.
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Open your Web browser, and download the updated Chaintech BIOS file for your particular motherboard (see Resources). Save the file to your desktop.
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Right-click the file, and select "Extract All." Click "Browse" and select the desktop as the destination. Click "Extract." A new unzipped folder will appear on your desktop.
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Double-click the unzipped folder to open it. Highlight the files within the unzipped folder, right-click and select "Copy."
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Click "Start," and select "Computer." Double-click the icon for the floppy disk drive.
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Right-click within the window, and select "Paste" to copy the BIOS update files to the floppy disk. Record the exact filenames of the files that you copy onto the floppy disk drive; you will need this information later. Note there will be two files: the BIOS file itself and the BIOS flash utility (.exe).
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Remove the floppy disk containing the BIOS update files, and insert the Windows boot disk created in Step 2.
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Restart your computer, and press the "Del" key while the system is booting. The BIOS setup menu will appear.
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Scroll down to "Advanced BIOS Features" using the arrow keys, and press "Enter." Scroll down to the boot order section, highlight "Floppy" and press the "+" key on your keyboard to move it to the "First Boot Device." Press "F10" to save the settings and restart the computer. The computer will boot from the floppy disk, and the "A:/" prompt will appear. If the floppy is already the first boot device, skip this step.
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Remove the Windows boot disk, and replace it with the floppy disk containing the updated BIOS files.
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Type the exact filename and extension of the BIOS flash utility that you recorded in Step 7 into the "A:\" prompt, and press "Enter." The BIOS update file is an executable file and ends with ".exe" (such as "flash879.exe"). The program will prompt you for the BIOS file and location.
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Input "A:\BIOSfilename", replacing "BIOSfilename" with the filename and extension of the BIOS file from Step 7. The BIOS filename and extension can vary widely, for example, "W6330VMS.360" or "P4P81016.ROM." As a general rule, the BIOS file is the non-executable file. Press "Enter." Allow the file to update the BIOS.
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Restart your system after the update completes.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not interrupt the BIOS update, or you could render your computer unbootable.
