Giga-Byte Technology Flash BIOS Utility
(JUNE 11, 1996)

**** IMPORTANT  NEW VERSION OF FLASH UTILITY HAS BEEN ADDED TO AF.ZIP *****

The utility AF.EXE ((AF52.EXE is for more recent BIOSes such as 5ATM.331,
5ATS.130, and 54AL.107. The use of the wrong version of the AF.EXE
program WILL NOT hurt your system BIOS, rather it will cause your system
to freeze. If you have used the wrong version of the AF.EXE program,
simply reboot and use the correct program.)) is used to update your
Giga-Byte Technology mainboard BIOS. To use:


  1. Boot from a "clean" DOS v3.3 or higher system disk - no TSR or memory
     managers, or if using DOS 6.X, during boot up "Starting MS-DOS,"
     press the [F5] key to bypass the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

     NOTE: DO NOT use Windows'95 safe mode & boot to DOS command prompt
	   option nor use a system boot disk created from Windows'95.

  2. Type A:AF <filename.xxx> [Enter]
     Where <filename.xxx> is the full name of the new unzipped BIOS file.
     Then follow the prompts.

  3. The utility only can be used on the following Giga-Byte mainboards: 
     a.GA-586AT   (do not save old BIOS)
       GA-586AT/P (do not save old BIOS & disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     b.GA-586AS   (with an original BIOS Version above 1.3x)
     c.GA-586ATE  (do not save old BIOS)
       GA-586ATE/P(do not save old BIOS & disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     d.GA-586AM   (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present)
     e.GA-586AVS  (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present)
     f.GA-486AM
     g.GA-5486AL
     h.GA-586ATS/x(Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE if it is present)
     i.GA-586ATM  (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     
     j.GA-586HX   (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     k.GA-586ATV  (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     l.GA-586VX   (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     m.GA-586SVX  (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     n.GA-586DX   (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
     o.GA-686NX   (Disable Pipe-Lined Burst CACHE)
