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* For Award BIOS with NCR 3.0 SCSI BIOS built-in *

Some motherboards may have compatibility problems with DC390W/U/F when the
following combinations are encountered:
  1. Award BIOS
  2. NCR V3.0 SCSI BIOS built-in (only supports 53C810 and 53C820)

Problem Description:
  The Award BIOS checks both the Vendor ID (NCR) and class code (SCSI devices),
  and will enable its built-in NCR SCSI BIOS then, if the above checks out.
  This "enable built-in NCR SCSI BIOS" procedure will also neglect any add-in
  board's BIOS, which uses 53C810, 53C820 or another NCR SCSI chip.
  This would accordingly cause the DC390W/U/F, which uses NCR 53C825A/875 chip,
  NOT to show their BIOS messages during system POST and to be controlled by
  the M/B's built-in NCR SCSI BIOS. This would eventually keep the system from
  finding any SCSI devices connected to DC-390W/U/F and thus make booting up
  from any of these SCSI devices impossible.

Solution:
  To fix this problem, you need to REMOVE the built-in NCR SCSI BIOS from
  the mainboard BIOS.


	PROG.BAT	batch file used to remove NCR SCSI BIOS or restore
			original mainboard BIOS
	AWDFLASH.EXE	Utility to retrieve or program mainboard BIOS
	CBROM.EXE	Utility to remove NCR SCSI BIOS from mainboard BIOS's
			binary file.


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