

If you already have an Firmware update diskette, skip to the
"Perform the update" section below.

NOTE: REGARDING UPGRADING FROM ALPHA BIOS 5.29 AND BELOW:

    The ordering of the ATAPI driver has been modified.  If your 
    Personal Workstation contains a IDE harddrive AND a SCSI 
    harddrive, you will need to do the following steps following 
    the update:

    1) Go into the AlphaBIOS Setup by hitting the <F2> key once 
    the Personal Workstation splash screen appears.
    2) Go to the Utilities/OS Selection Setup menu by using the 
    arrow keys.
    3) Modify the boot selections to "point" to the correct hard 
    drive.
    4) Save the new boot selections by hitting <F10>.
    5) At the prompt to verify if you wish to save, press <Enter>
    6) Exit the AlphaBIOS Setup and reboot.

** Contents of diskette **

The contents of this directory is:

	fwupdate.exe
	readme.txt (this file)
        AB-570.rtf

The file:

	fwupdate.exe

contains the following firmware components:

	apu	7.1	*
	SRM 	7.1-3	*
	POST 	5.90
	AlphaBIOS 5.70	*

** Create the update diskette **

Copy fwupdate.exe on a blank formatted 1.44M floopy disk.
Label this diskette:

	Digital Personal Workstation a-series
	SRM firmware update utility (fwupdate.exe)

** Perform the update **

Shutdown Windows NT (if it was running).

Start up the Personal Workstation and move to the AlphaBIOS setup 
screen (Press the <F2> key during the startup process).

Insert the firmware update utility disk into the floppy drive.

Select the Upgrade AlphaBIOS... menu item.

When the fwupdate.exe has started (large image, be patient), the update
utility will display an update menu.


To upgrade your firmware:

	Select Update at the Menu.

	After that another Update Menu comes up.  Select Full update.
	
	Confirm the update with "Y"
	Messages about SRM and ARC/AlphaBIOS updates will be displayed.

At the menu, exit out and then power cycle the system or press the reset 
switch. AlphaBIOS will restart. You may confirm that new versions of 
firmware have been updated correctly by selecting the Display System 
Configuration AlphaBIOS menu item and reviewing the displayed revision 
information.
