SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP10833 PART NUMBER: 352660-007 FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: Professional Workstation AP200 System ROMPaq VERSION: 686W7_043099 Rev A LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: ROMPaqs DIVISIONS: Workstations PRODUCTS AFFECTED: Compaq Professional Workstation AP200 OPERATING SYSTEM: N/A SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: June 21, 1999 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.x SUPERSEDES: SP9989 DESCRIPTION: Creates a ROMPaq diskette that allows a user to update the System ROM in a Compaq Professional Workstation AP200 to the 04/30/99 version. The diskette also contains foreign language modules that can be used to flash foreign language strings into the system ROM for use in F10 Setup. Enhancements/Fixes: - Features new microcode patches for the Pentium III and Celeron processors. - Corrects a condition where the system may fail to find USB hubs or high speed USB keyboards. - Corrects a timing condition that caused the system BIOS to not find some USB devices that were connected through a Compaq V1000 USB hub. - Corrects a slow boot condition with newer CD-ROM drives that have drive shadowing, a new ATAPI specification. This caused longer than normal boot times. - Corrects a condition with video option ROM's greater than 32KB that exist with other PCI option ROM's in the system. The condition caused a video hang with certain video cards. - Corrects a condition with the IBM X.25 card when present with a PCI card featuring an option ROM that resulted in an error from the card's diagnostic program. - Corrects a condition that was causing the system to hang when warm booted if a Powerstorm 300 video card was installed. - Corrects a condition in F10 Setup for selecting the primary VGA card when two video cards are installed. - Added DMI table update to allow maximum memory as 768 MB and maximum processor speed as 600 Mhz. - Added fixes for the Matrox LE video capture card. HOW TO USE: 1. Obtain a formatted 1.44-MB diskette. 2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is an executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. You will be prompted to insert the formatted diskette in a drive to create the diskette. 4. After the diskette has been created, you may delete the SoftPaq file downloaded in step 2. 5. Keeping the newly created diskette in the A: drive, cycle system power to boot from the ROMPaq diskette. 6. Follow the on-screen instructions to flash the System ROM. WARNING: DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR ATTEMPT TO REBOOT THE COMPUTER DURING THE SYSTEM ROM FLASH PROCESS!!!! Flash Recovery Instructions (in case of system ROM corruption): 1) Power down the computer to be flashed. 2) Insert the ROMPaq diskette into the floppy drive and power up the computer. If the system ROM is corrupt the computer will beep and no video will be seen. 3) If the flash diskette is bad or no diskette is installed, the NUM LOCK keyboard LED will turn ON. The CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK keyboard LEDs will be OFF. 4) If the computer has a setup password set, the CAPS LOCK keyboard LED will be ON. The NUM LOCK and SCROLL LOCK keyboard LEDs will be OFF. Please enter your setup password at this time. 5) The ROMPaq diskette will boot and begin the flash process. Do not turn off the computer until the flash is completed. 6) If the flash is SUCCESSFUL, the NUM LOCK, CAPS LOCK, and SCROLL LOCK keyboard LEDs will be turned ON. Also, the computer will play a series of rising tones at the end of a good flash. Remove the ROMPaq diskette and cycle power. If the flash FAILS, the SCROLL LOCK LED will be ON and the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK LEDS will be OFF. WARNING: DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR ATTEMPT TO REBOOT THE COMPUTER DURING THE SYSTEM ROM FLASH PROCESS!!!! Copyright 1999, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.