bios flashing  

You can also just use the Asus bios update in their Ausu Update. updating thru online. super easy. ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support- Select MB, sockett, model, utilities, asus update. download and then select update bios.

zigzag3143 said:

Doakh

I agree but im not a manual reader myself so I cant blame him for not doing it

If someone can tell me how to set it up i'll be sweet as :)

thefabe said:

You can also just use the Asus bios update in their Ausu Update. updating thru online. super easy. ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support- Select MB, sockett, model, utilities, asus update. download and then select update bios.

hi thefabe

i'll have a look but i've already tried that the windows 7 one doesn't work which really sucks

G

ok but how did they tell you to install it?

Upon First Use of this Motherboard Series

Please insert a clean, unformatted disk into A:\ drive and boot the system into DOS mode. In DOS mode, please type in C:\> FORMAT A: /S or click on“My Computer”icon under Windows O/S, right click on drive A:\ and choose“Format”. By using the procedure above, you can create a boot disk without AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.

Then, place the bundled M/B support CD into the optical drive. Copy AFUDOS.EXE (unzipped) onto your boot disk. Otherwise, please refer to ASUS Download Site for latest version of AFUDOS.EXE BIOS tool utility , please remember to decompress the file before copy it onto the boot disk. ASUS Download Site is located at ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support-

Warning：

AFUDOS.EXE (unzipped) can only be executed in DOS mode and not from MS-DOS Prompt in Windows O/S. As a result, no matter if you wish to backup or update the BIOS content, you must create a new boot disk. Please copy AFUDOS.EXE into the disk which you wish to boot the system. In addition, in the BIOS device boot sequence, you must set boot from "Floppy Drive" as the first device in the order of boot sequence.

AFUDOS BIOS Update Procedure (If neccessary)

1.Please use the prepared boot disk to boot into DOS mode. Then, type in the following commands：

afudos /i For example, afudos /ip4c800b.rom,

refers to the fullname of the BIOS file. The following shows the procedure of BIOS refreshing.

Note: Please don't switch off or reboot the system during BIOS refreshing! By doing so, you will cause serious damage to your system.




2. After BIOS refreshing is complete, the utility will return to DOS prompt (as shown in the figure below), please take out the floppy disk and reboot the system to enter the BIOS Menu.




Use built-in EZ Flash BIOS to Refresh

1. Download latest ASUS BIOS from ASUS WWW and rename the BIOS filename to "xxxxx.ROM" (xxxxx represents the motherboard model you used, eg. P4C800 BIOS is named p4c800.ROM), and save the file in a floppy disk.

2. Reboot the system.

3. When the system is at POST after reboot, please hold down "Alt" + "F2" to view the following image. You may start executing EZ Flash utility. Please place the floppy disk with latest BIOS inside and insert into the floppy drive.


Note: If you have not placed any floppy disk into the floppy drive, you will see a warning message stating "Floppy not found". If the utility can not find the correct files in the floppy disk, it will show "p4c800.ROM not found!" (Assuming the motherboard is P4C800) message.



4. The system will auto-detect whether the floppy disk contains the relevant files in the floppy drive. If there is no problem, the EZ Flash utility will begin auto-refreshing and reboot the system once it is done . The procedure for refreshing is show below.


Note: Please don't turn off or reboot the system during BIOS refreshing! By doing so, you will cause serious damage to your system!

i dont have a floppy drive installed

Gamer1238 said:

i dont have a floppy drive installed

IS that the newest upgrade? whats the date on the file?

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

i dont have a floppy drive installed

IS that the newest upgrade? whats the date on the file?

that long post was a copy of how to install the bios file but its with a A:\ (floppy drive)

Date of the new bios file is 2009/05/22

Gamer1238 said:

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

i dont have a floppy drive installed

IS that the newest upgrade? whats the date on the file?

that long post was a copy of how to install the bios file but its with a A:\ (floppy drive)

Date of the new bios file is 2009/05/22

and you dont have a floppy, or dvd? If you have dvd follow the instructions but you dont have to worry about formatting it

K

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

zigzag3143 said:

IS that the newest upgrade? whats the date on the file?

that long post was a copy of how to install the bios file but its with a A:\ (floppy drive)

Date of the new bios file is 2009/05/22

and you dont have a floppy, or dvd? If you have dvd follow the instructions but you dont have to worry about formatting it

K

I have a DVD drive :)

can you explain how i would do it with a DVD drive?? please

sorry about this.... i usally use the program that Asus gives you but i can't install it on windows 7 (yet!)