Driver & BIOS Download

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1. Mother Board BIOS &  Driver Update

Utility Files

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE RIGHT DRIVERS FOR YOUR CHIPSET.

Special Note:

For User W/Driver CD V5.1, you will experience unable to shutdown the computer properly. That's because the VGA and LAN driver need to be updated. Please download the following patch and follow the instruction to correct the problem:

1. Get into the CMOS setup when you first start the computer.  Go to "PCI Plug $ Play Setup" , choose the option :Allocate IRQ to VGA", change the default from "No" to "Yes". ESC back to the CMOS main menu, and press F10 to save and exit.

2. Download the following two patch files in zip format

• Patch620.zip, VGA Driver, 814KB
• Patchdav.zip, Davicom LAN Driver, 29KB

3. After boot up from Windows 98SE, load all the necessary drivers from CD Driver V5.1 as usual except VGA & Lan drivers

4. Make a temp directory c:\620patch in you C:drive and copy those two files into the that directory. Unzip the VGA files into C:\patch620\VGA and the LAN file into  c:\patch620\lan.

5. to load the VGA driver, make sure you load the CD Driver V5.1 into your CD-ROM Drive. Run the setup.exe VGA patch file from C:\patch620\vga/ . During the setup process, the system will prompt for the VGA Driver from the CD-ROM, allocate it to the location of CD-ROM's VGA\XXXX\Win9x directory.

For User who got V.18 Driver CD, You need to download this PCI Bridge Utility (157KB) to get rid of "PCI Bridge"sign under Win95 for Intel TX/LX chipset Mb.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE FILE MD8738.ZIP FOR YOUR MODEM, BEFORE UPDATE THE BIOS ON THE MOTHERBOARDS SUCH AS MB598LMR, MB741LMRT, AND MB748LMRT.

1. Check to see what type of flash chip you have in your Mb. There are two types of flash memory, Large Block and Small Block. We label them as "L" or "S" respectively. When you first turn the computer on. The screen will show the BIOS date code and a letter with "L" or "S".
2. Down load the right type of BIOS  according to what type of flash chip you got in your MB.
3. Down load the right  BIOS flash utilities.
4. Make sure the Voltage on the flash chip were set to 12V on your Mb
5. Make a clean Bootable Disk that has no config.sys and autoexec.bat file. Copy BIOS file and Flash Utility to the floppy.
6. Put this bootable diskette in drive A: and boot the system into  A:>
7 Run award or AMI flash utility to flash the bios.

Note: MB537 has two different Versions. VXpro and VXpro +. Their BIOS can not be mixed! Please check the Version number of the motherboard near the keyboard connector. V5.1 or earlier is VXpro. V5.2 or later is VXpro+.

2. Video Card Driver Update

• PCCHIPS Web Site
• S3 Web Site
• SiS Web Site
• Trident Microsystems Web Site
• Jaton Corp Website

3. SoundPro HT1869V Driver Update

• Win98 driver 6/23/98 2.5MB
• Driver patch for Win98 shut down problem
• Windows NT 4.0 driver
• Win95 Driver/Utility for SoundPro sound card
• Software Wave-Table for Win95

4. Linux Support

• Lan support Intel D815EEAL motherboard. A number of people have reported that RedHat Linux does not recognize the builtin eepro/100 network card for this motherboard. Here is the solution:
• Download the patch e100-1.5.5a.tar.gz [curteousy of Intel and RedHat].
• Uncompress: tar xvfz e100-1.5.5a.tar.gz
• Become Root: su
• Compile: ( cd e100-1.5.5/src ; gmake install )
• Add to configuration, we suggest using netconf and set module as e100.