Micro Firmware Phoenix 4.xx BIOS Upgrades

Filename: MFIBIOS.TXT
WWW URL:  http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/mfibios.htm
FTP URL:  ftp://ftp.firmware.com/text/mfibios.txt
Revision: 06/07/99  TLS  Micro Firmware Technical Support
Summary:  Cross-reference for Micro Firmware BIOS upgrades, including
          motherboard names, part numbers, original BIOS versions. 

This document lists all of the currently available Micro Firmware BIOS upgrades based on Phoenix 4.03, 4.05, or 4.06 code.

The main reason for developing most of these upgrades is to support large hard drives. The current revisions of all of these upgrades support hard drives up to 8.4GB. A few of them support drives over 8.4GB. We are working on adding support for drives over 8.4GB to most of these upgrades. See OVER8GB.TXT for details. All of these upgrades support 4 hard drives. The current versions of all of these BIOSes will handle the Year 2000 date rollover correctly.

Detailed information on all of these upgrades is available on our web site or FTP site. A separate text file addresses each BIOS upgrade. The "Current Revision" info may be more accurate in the part number text files, although this file should be accurate as of the revision date of this file.

Listed by motherboard manufacturer in this order: Micronics, Intel, Packard Bell, Anigma.

Micronics motherboards can be identified by the Micronics part number which is silkscreened onto the top of the board, usually on the back edge of the board. The part number is in the form 09-00xxx. Gateway 2000 used the following boards up through the JX30G. Micron uses Micronics boards beginning with the JX30. We may develop upgrades in the future for additional Micronics Pentium boards.

Motherboard           Micronics  Original          MFI       Current

                      Part No.   BIOS Version      Part no.  Revision


Baby Gemini 386        09-00086  1.10 Gxx           M3GS20   4.03.6.11

386 ASIC (no cache)    09-00065  1.10 Mxx           M3GS30   4.03.6.13
386 SMT ASIC (w cache) 09-00066  1.10 Mxx           M3GS30   4.03.6.13

       
486-25 ISA             09-00025  0.10 Fxx           M4GS30   4.03.6.14

486 ASIC ISA           09-00054  0.10 Gxx[-2]       M4GS20   4.03.6.10

486 ISA Gemini Series  09-00081  0.10 Gxx[-2]       M4GS20   4.03.6.10

                       09-00125

                       09-00093

                       09-00135

DXLB (486 VLBus)       09-00144  0.10 GLB-xx        M4GS25   4.03.6.19

                       09-00169

JX30 (486 VL Bus)      09-00183  0.10 [G]JX30-xx    M4HS45   4.05.13

JX30G (486 VL Bus)     09-00189  0.10 [G]JX30G-xx[P] M4HS45G 4.05.17

JX30GC (486 VL Bus)    09-00203  0.10 JX30GC-xx     M4HS45GC 4.05.08

M4Pi (486 PCI)         09-00209  1.03 M4pi-xx[xx]   M4HS60   4.05.19

                                 4.04 M4pi-xx[xx]

M54Hi (Pentium PCI)    09-00236  4.04 M54Hi-xx      M5HS10   4.05.21

M54Li (Pentium PCI)    09-00239  4.04 M54Li-xx      M5HS15   4.05.10 

M54Pi (Pentium PCI)    09-00208  4.03 M54Pi-N xx[xx] M5HS60  4.05.26

                                 4.04 M54P1-N xx[xx]

M54Si (Pentium PCI)    09-00211  4.04 M54Si-xx      M5HS20   4.05.08

M55Hi Plus (REV A)     09-00273  4.05 M55Hi Plus    M5HS65   (soon)

Intel Motherboards can be identified by the suffix on the BIOS version. All of the following Intel boards have been used by Gateway 2000. The fourth digit in the BIOS version suffix indicates an OEM version of the BIOS or board (T indicates Gateway 2000).

Motherboard                         Original BIOS   MFI       Current
Code Name        Official Name      Version         Part No.  Revision

Monsoon          Classic R          1.00.xx.AC0     I4HS10     4.05.10

Batman           Premiere/PCI       1.00.xx.AF1     I5HS10     4.05.05

                 Expandable Desktop 

Batman's Revenge Premiere/PCI ED    1.00.xx.AF2[x]  I5HS15     4.05.19

Plato            Premiere/PCI II    1.00.xx.AX1[x]  I5HS20     4.05.37

                                   
Zappa            Advanced/ZP        1.00.xx.BS0[x]  I5HS25     4.05.23

Aladdin          Advanced/AL        1.00.xx.BR0T    I5HS30     4.05.16

Thor             Advanced/ATX       1.00.xx.CN0T    I5HS35     4.05.03

Tigereye         TE430VX            1.00.xx.CY1T    I5JS40     4.06.12

Mailman/Hitman   (Gateway OEM)      1.00.xx.DQ0T    I5JS45     4.06.09

These are normally identified by the FCC ID number on the back of the system unit. The BIOS version is not useful for identifying the board.

FCC ID 400-409 is PB400.
FCC ID 410-449 is PB410 or PB430 (we use same upgrade for both)
FCC ID 450-459 is PB450

Motherboard     Original           MFI        Current 

                BIOS Version       Part No.   Revision

PB400           1.01 Ref ID xx     P4HS00     4.05.04

PB410           1.01 Ref ID xx     P4HS10     4.05.22

PB430           1.01 Ref ID xx     P4HS10     4.05.22

PB450           4.03 1.xx          P4HS20     4.05.10

                4.05 3.03

These are used by Gateway 2000. There are five 486 PCI Anigma boards, one 486 EISA Anigma board, and one 486 ISA Anigma board used by Gateway 2000. We have a BIOS upgrade for only the 486 ISA board and have no plans to produce upgrades for the others. For more info on GW2K Anigma motherbaords, see ANIG-CHT.TXT.

Motherboard       Original        MFI          Current

                  BIOS Version    Part No.     Revision


LP48IP (486 ISA)  A486 1.01       M4HS50       4.05.08

                  LP486I2