SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP15345
PART NUMBER:  174580-008/180634-008
FILE NAME:  N/A
TITLE:  ROMPaq for Deskpro EN, Deskpro EN (SFF), and Deskpro EN (SFF-v) Series (686P2/P3 ROM)
VERSION:  686P2/P3_v2.04 
LANGUAGE:  English

CATEGORY:  ROMPaqs 

DIVISIONS:  Desktops

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  Compaq Deskpro EN Series models C600, P667, P733, P800,
                    P866, and P933.  Deskpro EN (SFF) Series models C600 (SFF),
                    P667 (SFF), P733 (SFF), P800 (SFF), P866 (SFF), and P933 (SFF).
                    Deskpro EN (SFF-v) Series models P667 (SFF-v), P733 (SFF-v),
                    P800 (SFF-v), P866 (SFF-v), and P933 (SFF-v) with a 686P2/P3 Family ROM
             NOTE:  Run F10 Setup to determine the ROM Family and ROM date.

OPERATING SYSTEM:  N/A 

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  N/A

EFFECTIVE DATE:  September 6, 2000

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION:  2.X

SUPERSEDES:  SP14005

DESCRIPTION:  This creates a ROMPaq firmware diskette that can be used to restore the 
System ROM in the above Deskpro Series models with a 686P2/P3 Family ROM.  

The ROM Family and ROM date can be determined by running F10 Setup.  

Enhancements/Fixes

- Corrected a condition where, on rare occasions, the system would not boot to a 
  diskette in certain diskette drives.
- Corrected a condition where entering and waking from Suspend-to-RAM (S3) rapidly could 
  cause a system hang.
- Corrected a condition where the user cannot access the F10 BIOS setup 
  or boot from removable media on the next normal restart in certain environments with 
  heavy network traffic.
- Corrected a condition with two disk drive translation modes available in F10 setup:
  "none" and "LBA-assisted".
- Corrected a condition where bad sectors/clusters were being falsely reported by Win9x
  Format (FAT32) on drives > 8.4 GB.
- Corrected a condition where LS-120 drives were not seen when the legacy diskette 
  controller had been disabled in F10-Setup.
- Corrected a condition that was causing remote ROM flash to lockup.
- Corrected a condition with the Mitsumi FX322M CD-ROM drive that was causing the 
  Windows 2000 Bootable CD installation to hang the system.
- Corrected a condition that would not allow formatting 1.44MB media in an LS-120 
  drive in Windows 95/98 and DOS. 
- Made a change to the configuration of audio devices so that if an add-in PCI audio
  card is detected, the BIOS will disable and hide the integrated audio device so that
  it does not conflict with the add-in card.
- Corrects a condition where switching between primary and secondary VGA may cause 
  resource conflicts.
- Adds support for the Deskpro EN Entry model (without integrated audio).
- Updated the NIC PXE ROM to v3.0.05.


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.  

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 select the v2.04 
Compaq System ROM and flash the firmware.

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