AX6C, AX6C-L

Last Updated: 11/12/01

ax6c104.zip R1.04 07/04/00 204KB
Checksum 4301h
Fixes detection error of Maxtor 20G HDD.
Updates CPU microcodes for both Slot 1 and FC-PGA Coppermine CPU.
Fixes failure in resuming from S3 when USB Keyboard enabled.
Supports Suspend to RAM in Win 2000
Fixes Suspend to RAM failure with ATI AGP and TNT2 AGP in Win 2000.
Displays 800EB for Coppermine 800/133 instead of 800B.
Updates BIOS flashing utility.

ax6c101.zip R1.01 05/09/00 198KB
Checksum 9C62h
Adds "Wake On PCI Card".
Fixes HDD detection error when there are UDMA66 and UDMA33 HDDs
connected to the same 40-pin cable.
Fixes Suspend-to-Disk failure with TNT2 cards.
Fixes hang-up at POST when "Security Option" set to "System".
Fixes yellow (!) mark on midi port in Win2000 build 2183 or later.
Fixes boot failure with Win NT4.0 bootable CD when there's only one SCSI
HDD in the system.

ax6c100.zip R1.00 12/30/99 194KB
Applicable both to AX6C and AX6C-L.
No longer shows 'B' or 'E' for Katmai/Coppermine CPU of frequency over
600MHz, following Intel's specification.
Displays CPUID and micro code patch ID information in system configuration
summary screen.
Supports Wake On Mouse with Logitech MouseMan PS2 mouse in Win98
original edition.
Fixed conflict with Midi port 290H under Win98 ACPI mode.
[Note] Please follow steps below to flash this new type BIOS of AX6C/AX6C-L motherboards.

Procedure:

Download this zipped file.
Run shareware PKUNZIP (http://www.pkware.com/) which supports miscellaneous
operation systems to extract the binary BIOS file and the flash utility. Or Winzip
(http://www.winzip.com/) in Windows environment.
Save "AX6C100.EXE" and "AX6C100.BIN" to a DOS floppy disk. Reboot your system
with this disk without loading any memory handler (suh as EMM386) or device driver
to get as much free space as possible. If you have an EPROM writer, simply take the .
BIN file to program your BIOS.
Execute A:>AX6C100 and the program will do the rest of it.
DO NOT turn off power during flashing process, until you are asked to!!
Reboot system and press "DEL" to enter BIOS setup, load "BIOS SETUP DEFAULT",
then SAVE and EXIT. Done!

ax6c008.exe R0.08 11/18/99 229KB
Initial release.
Checksum E278h.
[Note] The AOpen Easy Flash way does not apply to this 4Mb BIOS. Please follow steps below
to flash the AX6C BIOS.

Procedure:

Download this self-extracting file and execute it to get the binary BIOS file, flash and
checksum utilities.
Run "CHECKSUM AX6Cxxx.BIN" to see if the checksum of the downloaded file is exactly
the same as indicated. If not, do the downloading again.
Save "AOFL170.EXE" and "AX6Cxxx.BIN" to a DOS floppy disk. Reboot your system with
this disk without loading any memory handler (suh as EMM386) or device driver to get as
much free space as possible.
Execute A:>AOFL170 AX6Cxxx.BIN.
DO NOT turn off the power during flashing process, until you are asked to!!
Reboot system and press "DEL" to enter BIOS setup, load "BIOS SETUP DEFAULT", then
SAVE and EXIT. Done!