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Last Update: 4/17/1998

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For those users who want to upgrade GA-686KDX, GA-686LX, GA686DLX, GA-686SLX, GA-686LX2 and GA-686BLX's BIOS PLEASE use ONLY "af535a.exe, af54.exe, or AF56.exe" to upgrade the Flash BIOS. Use any other version of Flash BIOS program will destroy you FLASH BIOS. If you use the wrong version and end up destroy you BIOS, Giga-Byte will not be responsible for your action.

The latest flash utility(AF535A.EXE,AF54.EXE, and AF56.EXE), is now included in the AF.ZIP file. Most of the BIOS file will work with af535A.exe, but some of the older bios file may still require af.exe or af52.exe. Please use af535A.exe first, if you have problem with af535A.exe than try af.exe, or af52.exe.

Two simple ways to find the BIOS upgrade for your board.

1. If you are familiar with this page you can access the files you need by simply scroll down the page.

2. If you are not familiar with this page you can go to one of the four selections and chose the model name according to your model name printed on the board.

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Intel® Pentium® II Based Motherboards

Intel® Pentium®/AMD®/Cyrix® Based Motherboards

UPDATED FLASH BIOS FILES

 

 

Model Name

Driver

Descriptions
GA-600   AGP VGA Card
WIN95_32.EXE WIN95 Ver 3.2  
WIN95_23.EXE WIN95 Ver 2.3  

 

Model Name

BIOS Upgrade for 686 Pentium® II Processor Motherboards

Descriptions
GA-686BX   Pentium® II processor based board w/440BX
6BX112.zip GA-686BX flash BIOS Ver 1.12 (04/17/98)
  1. Fixed green switch bug.
  2. Fixed health system "!" message with ISA/VGA present.
  3. Fixed misplaced PnP/PCI configuration setup position.
  4. Add CAS latency option from 2,3 to 2,3,AUTO.
  5. Add 'Clock Spread Spectrum' item in BIOS option.
  6. Fixed 'Load Performance default for this page (Y/N)' over the border if user pressed F5/F6/F7.
GA-6BXD   Dual Pentium® II processor based board w/440BX W/SCSI
6BXD104.zip GA-6BXD flash BIOS Ver 1.04 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-6BXS   Pentium® II processor based board w/440BX w/SCSI
6BXS106.zip GA-6BXS flash BIOS Ver 1.06 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-6BA   Pentium® II processor based board w/440BX /AT
6BA103.zip GA-6BA flash BIOS Ver 1.03 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-6EMM   Pentium® II processor based board w/440EX
6EMM101.zip GA-6EMM flash BIOS Ver 1.01 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-6EX   Pentium® II processor based board w/440EX
6EX102.zip GA-6EX flash BIOS Ver 1.02 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-6EX2   Pentium® II processor based board w/440EX
6EX2_102.zip GA-6EX2 flash BIOS Ver 1.02 (04/17/98)
  1. Initial Release Version.
GA-686LX4   Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6LX4.107 GA-686LX4 flash BIOS Ver 1.07 (03/19/98)
  1. Fix green switch failure
  2. Fix the incorrect format in chipset setup screen
  3. Fix system Health Check show'!' if ISA/VGA is plugged
     
GA-686LX3   Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6LX3.107 GA-686LX3 flash BIOS Ver 1.07 (03/19/98)
  1. Fix keyboard no response after POST 3Eh for winbond W83977TF
GA-686DL2   Dual Pentium® II processor based board w/4 40LX
6DL2_103.ZIP GA-686DL2 flash BIOS Ver 1.03 (02/04/98)
  1. Beta Version Feedbacks are welcome
6DL2_102.ZIP GA-686DL2 flash BIOS Ver 1.02 (01/14/98)
  1. Fix HCT unreport memory test fail.
  2. Change health feature to real-time update.
  3. Change PCI POST routines to match Intel's requirement.
  4. Add "VGA Boot From" item to let user select boot from PCI or AGP VGA.
  5. Update Deshutes patch code to 0015h version. " for more information about CPU patch code please go to Intel web site"
6DL2_100.ZIP GA-686DL2 flash BIOS Ver 1.00 (12/14/97)
  1. Release Version.
GA-686LX2   Dual Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6LX2_114.zip GA-686LX2 flash BIOS Ver 1.14 (04/10/98)
  1. Add 'VGA Boot From' item for AGP card.
  2. Fixed power button don't work under SCO Unix running with dual processor.
6LX2.108 GA-686LX2 flash BIOS Ver 1.08 (11/10/97)
  1. Release Version
GA-686SLX   Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX w/SCSI
6SLX_105.ZIP GA-686SLX flash BIOS Ver 1.05 (11/14/97)
  1. Release Version
GA-686BLX   Baby AT Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6BLX196.ZIP GA-686BLX flash BIOS Ver 1.96 (01/14/98)  
6BLX195.ZIP GA-686BLX flash BIOS Ver 1.95 (11/14/97)
  1. Fix system report 16 memory less during memory count.
GA-686DLX   Dual Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6DLX114.ZIP GA-686DLX flash BIOS Ver 1.14 (01/14/98)
  1. Fix HCT unreport memory test fail.
  2. Change health feature to real-time update.
  3. Change PCI POST routines to match Intel's requirement.
  4. Add "VGA Boot From" item to let user select boot from PCI or AGP VGA.
  5. Update Deshutes patch code to 0015h version. " for more information about CPU patch code please go to Intel web site"
6DLX111.ZIP GA-686DLX flash BIOS Ver 1.07 (12/14/97)
  1. Release Version.
GA-686LX   Pentium® II processor based board w/440LX
6LX_165.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.65 (03/19/98)
  1. Change BIOS Kernel
  2. Update Deschutes patch code to 0027h
  3. Fix AHA-2940UW + Adaptec AAA-131 RAID card failure
  4. Patch LGS SDRAM intermittent detect failure
6LX161.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.61 (01/14/98)
  1. Beta Version Feedback are Welcome.
  2. Do not update your BIOS to this version if you are using LDCM 3.0.
6LX157.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.57 (12/14/97)  
6LX155.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.55 (11/14/97)
  1. Fix system report 16 memory less during memory count.
6LX145.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.45 (9/30/97)  
6LX142.ZIP GA-686LX flash BIOS Ver 1.42 (9/204/97)
  1. Release Version
 

BIOS Upgrade for 586 Pentium® Processor Motherboards

 
GA-586SG    
5SG110.zip GA-586SG flash BIOS Ver. 1.10 (04/09/98)
  1. Change week number calculation errer (before Feb). Year number should be saved before convert BCD to HEX.
5SG.108 GA-586SG flash BIOS Ver. 1.08 (12/19/97)
  1. Release version
GA-586SGX    
5SGX111.zip GA-586SGX flash BIOS Ver. 1.11 (04/09/98)
  1. Change week number calculation errer (before Feb). Year number should be saved before convert BCD to HEX.
5SGX.109 GA-586SGX flash BIOS Ver. 1.09 (02/09/98)
  1. Fixed VGA can't boot or has noise problem
  2. Change power management item "IRQ[3-7,9-15],NMI" to "IRQ[3-7,9-11,13-15],NMI" to avoid keyboard can't wakeup system if move PS/2 mouse first.
  3. Fixed Alarm power on bug.
  4. Add VGA boot selectable item.
GA-586SGM    
5SGM110.zip GA-586SGM flash BIOS Ver. 1.10 (04/09/98)
  1. Change week number calculation errer (before Feb). Year number should be saved before convert BCD to HEX.
5SGM.108 GA-586SGM flash BIOS Ver. 1.08 (12/19/97)
  1. Add 3-mode Floppy Function
GA-586STX2    
5STX2_13.ZIP GA-586STX2 flash BIOS Ver 1.3 (11/14/97)
  1. Solve system hung up problem during boot.
GA-586S2    
5S2_18.ZIP GA-586S2 flash BIOS Ver 1.8 (11/10/97)
  1. Fixed system hang during setup Windows 95 if connect PS/2 mouse and plug on TEKRAM DC-390 PCI-SCSI card.
  2. Fixed Green LED Function
5S2_15.ZIP GA-586S2 flash BIOS Ver 1.5 (9/26/97)
  1. Solve system hung up problem during read/write with Intel LAN card under Win NT 4.0
5S2_13.ZIP GA-586S2 flash BIOS Ver 1.3 (8/26/97)
  1. Release Version
GA-586ATX3    
5ATX3_35.BIN GA-586ATX3 flash BIOS Ver. 3.5 (02/18/97)
  1. Fixed HYUNDAI HY57V168010A SDRAM not found in ROW0
  2. Change the default year from 97 to 98 if CMOS invalid
5ATX3_34.ZIP GA-586ATX3 flash BIOS Ver. 3.4 (1/20/97)
  1. NCR PCI SCSI Card 64K BIOS Support
  2. Support LDCM 3.1
5ATX3_33.ZIP GA-586ATX3 flash BIOS Ver. 3.3 (10/23/97)  
5ATX3_30.ZIP GA-586ATX3 flash BIOS Ver. 3.0 (9/23/97)
  1. Add Suspend to Hard Drive mode for power manager
  2. Add Power On Suspend mode for power manager.
GA-586ATX4    
5ATX4_23.BIN GA-586ATX4 flash BIOS Ver. 2.3 (3/18/98)
  1. The "Floppy Disk" could be set to "Enabled" in Power Management Setup.
5ATX4_20.ZIP GA-586ATX4 flash BIOS Ver. 2.0 (1/22/97)
  1. Change default year from 97 to 98.
5ATX4_12.ZIP GA-586ATX4 flash BIOS Ver. 1.2 (12/20/97)
  1. Release Version.
GA-586TX3    
5TX3_17.ZIP GA-586TX3 flash BIOS Ver. 1.7 (1/20/98)
  1. NCR PCI SCSI Card 64K BIOS Support
  2. Support LDCM 3.1
5TX3_16.ZIP GA-586TX3 flash BIOS Ver. 1.6 (11/24/97)
  1. Add new option for driving current in the MA Select.
  2. Fixed CD-ROM CDU511 can't boot if connect it on slave.
  3. System will stop on 80 port “ 0b” in configuration.
5TX3_13.ZIP GA-586TX3 flash BIOS Ver. 1.3 (9/23/97)
  1. Add Suspend to Hard Drive mode for power manager
  2. Add Power On Suspend mode for power manager.
5TX3_11.ZIP GA-586TX3 flash BIOS Ver. 1.1 (6/03/97)  
5TX3_10.ZIP GA-586TX3 flash BIOS Ver. 1.0 (5/23/97)
  1. Released version.
GA-586TX2    
5TX2_19.ZIP GA-586TX2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.9 (1/20/98)
  1. NCR PCI SCSI Card 64K BIOS Support
  2. Support LDCM 3.1
5TX2_18.ZIP GA-586TX2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.8 (11/06/97)
  1. Add new option for driver current in the MA Select
5TX2_13.ZIP GA-586TX2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.3 (10/20/97)  
5TX2_12.ZIP GA-586TX2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.2 (9/23/97)
  1. Add Suspend to Hard Drive mode for power manager
  2. Add Power On Suspend mode for power manager.
GA-586T2    
5T2_17.ZIP GA-586T2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.7 (1/20/98)
  1. NCR PCI SCSI Card 64K BIOS Support
  2. Support LDCM 3.1
5T2_15.ZIP GA-586T2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.5 (11/17/97)  
5T2_11.ZIP GA-586T2 flash BIOS Ver. 1.1 (9/23/97)
  1. Fix 1 IDE + 1 SCSI HDD, SCSI HD showed C: instead of D:
  2. Fix problem when using P8P9 power supply Resume by alarm.
  3. Fix CPU fan off in suspend problem.
 

Flash BIOS Program

 
AF.ZIP NEW flash BIOS programmer For 486AMS/5486AL

586/SVX/VX/DX/UX/MS/HX/ATM/ATS
586/ATE/AT/AVS/AS/S/TX/ATX/SA/AVX/
686NX/FX/DX/KX

 

GA586AVS PCI VGA & IDE DRIVER

 
SISNT35.ZIP GA-586AVS IDE and VGA driver For Win NT 3.5

Motherboard Utilities, Drivers and Other Utilities

 
TX_Patch.zip 430TX/440LX Windows 95 Patch Fix Windows 95 unknown devices problem for 430TX/440LX
Intlw95.ZIP IDE Bus Master driver for PIIX2, PIIX3, and PIIX 4 From Intel
PKUNZIP.EXE De-compress files Ver 1.2
PKZIPFIX.EXE Fix compressed files Ver 1.2
SPEED.ZIP Landmark Speed test Ver. 2.0
CORE.ZIP Coretest hard disk benchmark Ver. 1.92
SIS_5571.EXE

564,335B

  • For GA-586S (SIS 5571 Chipset) Mainboard.
  • PCI/IDE Bus Master driver for UDMA33 .
SIS_5582.EXE

564,335B

  • For GA-586S2/ 586STX (SIS 5582 Chipset) Mainboard.
  • PCI/IDE Bus Master driver for UDMA33 .
SIV.EXE

112,470B

  • SIV for " System Information Viewer " .
  • For GA-586TX2/586TX3/586ATX2 Intel 430TX CHIPSET M/B .
  • PC Health Monitor utility ( including HWM04.EXE & DMI.VXD )
  • Monitoring for following items' health :
  • +/-12 , +/-5 volts power supply, CPU Vcore status
  • CPU Temperature
  • CMOS battery status
  • HARD DISK USAGE PERCENTAGE
  • MEMORY USAGE PERCENTAGE ( both Physical & Virtual )
ATI_AGP.EXE

1,402,693B

  • For GA-686LX / 686LDX Intel 440LX CHIPSET M/B .
  • Windows 95 Beta Driver version 4.31B12 for "ATI RAGE PRO AGP" adapter .
sus2disk.zip

7180B

  • Suspend to Disk Utility for 440LX/430TX series that support suspend to disk function.

 

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