bios flashing

[slacky1230]

im flashing my bios with the lastest bios upgrade and following the instructions from http://support.asus.com/technicaldoc...Language=en-us

i made a boot disk and then copied and pasted the file onto the floppy from the instructions but when ever i put the disk in and reboot, it boots from floppy and that then i put the command in it says but get a error message some thing to do with the .rom file cant quite remember what its called, any one got any idea what im doing wrong?

[Sprite]

Maybe the floppy is corrupt or you have the wrong/too many files on it ?

[Clunk]

Im not too familiar with that board, but i think it has EZ flash, cant you use that?

[Agent]

Its giving you an error message for a reason.
"some thing to do with...." isnt exactly helping.

Give us the exact command and exact error message, then we might be able to help you

You wouldnt go to the Doctors and say "there is somthing wrong with me" - you would tell him whats wrong.

[slacky1230]

can i go straight into the EZ flash?

[Clunk]

This is where the manual comes in handy, but its something like alt+f1 or alt+f2 or f3 at post.

or

You can go into the bios and in there, its usually under tools. You can put the ROM file on a floppy or usb stick, or even on your c:\ drive and ez flash should list them.

Dont forget to clear the cmos after the update

[slacky1230]

so dont i need to do the bios refreshing? also how do i slear the cmos?

[kidzer]

Usually a jumper on the motherboard, bridging 2 pins, move it across to its other position and leave it for around 30s, and switch it back, you should be successfully reset

[Clunk]

Bios refreshing?

Are you trying to flash the bios to a later version?

if yes, do this..

save your Bios ROM file onto a clean floppy disk.

restart and enter the bios.

at this point, make sure that the floppy disk is pushed into the drive.

in the tools section of the bios (top right, main page usually) look for EZ flash and run that.

The EZ flash menu will show on the screen and it should list your floppy drive on the left.

choose the floppy drive and on the right of the screen, it should show the contents of the drive (your new bios ROM file).

Highlight the bios ROM file and hit enter and follow the on screen instructions from there.

if successful, it will restart and the jobs a good un.

you can then power off and reset the cmos (see your manual for this)

[slacky1230]

just wanna say thanks to all the people that helped me here i have succesfully flashed my bios, quicker than i thought it was done within a minute or 2

[Clunk]

Did you do the EZ flash way?

[slacky1230]

yes