TITLE: NVIDIA EFI Video BIOS Flash Utility for Itanium-based Workstations

VERSION: 5.00 Rev. 1
DESCRIPTION:
This contains the EFI version of the NVIDIA Video BIOS Flash Utility for the 
Itanium-based (IA-64) workstations listed. This flash utility may be used with 
the same NVIDIA video BIOS images that are provided for x86 systems. 

PURPOSE: Recommended                                                     
SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP27252
SUPERSEDES: None
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 16, 2004
CATEGORY: EFI (extensible firmware interface)                             
SSM SUPPORTED: No

PRODUCT TYPE(S):
Workstations

PRODUCT MODEL(S):
HP Workstation zx2000: All Models
HP Workstation zx2000: All Models
HP Workstation zx6000: All Models
HP Workstation zx6000: All Models

OPERATING SYSTEM(S): 
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
RH Ent Linux 3 (Itanium)
RH Ent Linux WS 2.1 (Itanium)
Windows XP 64

LANGUAGE(S): 
US English

ENHANCEMENTS: 
N/A

PREREQUISITES: 
N/A

HOW TO USE: 
1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive. The file downloaded 
is a zip compressed file that will extract to a 25MB ISO image that can be 
burned on a CD and booted in EFI.

2. Burn the extracted ISO image onto a CD using a CD burner.

3. Insert the EFI bootable CD you just burned in the previous step into the ROM 
drive of the IPF system with the NVIDIA product.

4. Boot to the EFI shell and change directory to the CDROM filesystem (Usually 
the last 'fs#:' - for example, 'fs2:' - on zx2000 or 'fs0:' on the zx6000).

5. If you type the command 'dir' you should see a script file called 
'nvflash.efi'. Otherwise, try switching to another drive until you locate it.

6. Once you locate the filesystem with the 'nvflash.efi' file, you may copy it 
to the EFI partition along with any NVIDIA video BIOS image you may have.

7. To run it, simply type 'nvflash.efi ' {where is the name of a valid NVIDIA 
video BIOS image file.}

7. Once the video BIOS update is complete, reboot the system {you can do a soft 
reboot by typing the command 'reset'}.



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