Firmware Update: Tyan Tomcat S5102 1.12

Tyan released a new BIOS for his S5102 motherboard a few days ago. This board is equipped with an Intel 875P chipset and comes with features such as on-board LAN, video and SATA-RAID. The download is only 342KB and contains the new BIOS, the program to flash it and instructions on how to do this. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features and fixes :

• Updated CPU Micro code
• Added ASF Support
• Console Redirect over COM1/COM2 selectable
• Console Redirect cable supports hot plug and play
• Fixed an issue where after installing OS and configuring the bios with PXE boot on 10/199 adapter, the system will hang during POST (8Bh) after each soft reboot
• Added PXE boot to both i82547GI/EI Nics
• Fixed an issue where the i82547GI was not found in the Bios setup menu
• Support automatic detection of SMDC Card & SMDC Function
  • Add SMDC item in the Console Redirection Function
  • BIOS will detect SMDC Card automatically when SMDC item is turned on
  • The Console Direction will set relative items automatically when SMDC item was turned on
  • Default setting of relative items:
    • Baud Rate = 19200 bps
    • Agent address = 2F8h
    • Agent after = Enabled
  • Support auto update MAC Address or SMDC Card
  • This function works on Intel GbE i82547EI/GI

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