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A7N8X-E Deluxe BIOS Problem
Hi @ all,
a friend of mine has an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and has killed his Bios by try to update it from a defect floppy. So I have downloaded the actually BIOS File from ASUS (1011). I did a CMOS CLEAR and when booting the board wants a disk awdflash (also downloaded from ASUS) and the BIOS File. In the Manual in 4.2 they told me to rename the file to A7N8X-E.ROM but everytime awdflash says "Source File Not Found!". So, is there anyone out there, who knows the correct name?? Please excuse my bad english...i'am from germany. ;-) Greetz Doris |
"Doris Heid" wrote in message ... Hi @ all, a friend of mine has an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and has killed his Bios by try to update it from a defect floppy. So I have downloaded the actually BIOS File from ASUS (1011). I did a CMOS CLEAR and when booting the board wants a disk awdflash (also downloaded from ASUS) and the BIOS File. In the Manual in 4.2 they told me to rename the file to A7N8X-E.ROM but everytime awdflash says "Source File Not Found!". So, is there anyone out there, who knows the correct name?? Please excuse my bad english...i'am from germany. ;-) Greetz Doris Hi Doris, Try renaming the file to 1011.bin. I renamed it to this when I flashed my bios and it worked ok. Regards, Hamid |
Hi Hamid,
"Hamid Saeed" wrote Try renaming the file to 1011.bin. I renamed it to this when I flashed my bios and it worked ok. doesn't work, same answer: source file not found. Greetz Doris |
"Doris Heid" wrote in message ... Hi Hamid, "Hamid Saeed" wrote Try renaming the file to 1011.bin. I renamed it to this when I flashed my bios and it worked ok. doesn't work, same answer: source file not found. Greetz Doris You have a startup floppy disk with awdflash.exe and the new BIOS file you have named 1011.bin? You start your system with that floppy in the drive, and type "awdflash"? Then you enter "A:\1011.bin"? You have nothing good to save so you enter No to the save question. And now you get the error msg "Source File Not Found!"? Luck; Ken |
Hi Ken,
"Ken Maltby" wrote You have a startup floppy disk with awdflash.exe and the new BIOS file you have named 1011.bin? You start your system with that floppy in the drive, and type "awdflash"? Then you enter "A:\1011.bin"? You have nothing good to save so you enter No to the save question. And now you get the error msg "Source File Not Found!"? no...no..no.. ;-) okay, maybe my first discription was not complete...there is no boot..first thing i see is: AWARD BootBlock BIOS V1.0 Copyright blabla... BIOS ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive A media ... INSERT SYSTEM DISk AND PRESS ENTER on this disk is the latest awdflash.exe and the 1011.bin. i insert it and press enter. The next is the following line: Automatic load AWDFLASH.EXE after loading, the cursor is at the bottom left and in the AWDFLASh Window at the bottom line you can read "Source File Not Found" i get no chance, to type in any filename, can leave this screen only with reset. strg, alt + del wouldn't work. Greetz Doris |
Hi,
i have fixed one Problem to get an other.:( First problern was the AWDFLASH from the ASUS site. It's V8.24b and didn't work in this case. I've tried the one from the CD (8.23z) and now it loads the BIOS File. But after loading, i get this message: The program file's BIOS-Lock String does not match with your system i've tried with all BIOS versions (1006, 1007, 1008 and 1011), the message is always the same. Any idea? Greetz Doris |
Doris Heid wrote:
Hi, i have fixed one Problem to get an other.:( First problern was the AWDFLASH from the ASUS site. It's V8.24b and didn't work in this case. I've tried the one from the CD (8.23z) and now it loads the BIOS File. But after loading, i get this message: The program file's BIOS-Lock String does not match with your system i've tried with all BIOS versions (1006, 1007, 1008 and 1011), the message is always the same. Any idea? Greetz Doris Doris, Are you able to use ALT + F2 when the system first begins to POST? If so, then it should take you to the built-in AWDFLASH Utility. After you have unzipped the BIOS file you downloaded, you may need to change/add the .bin on the end. After the built-in program starts, it will ask the name of the file, on the floppy, to program. I think it wants to see just "1011.bin" typed there. That should start the process. HTH. Rob |
Doris Heid wrote:
Hi, i have fixed one Problem to get an other.:( First problern was the AWDFLASH from the ASUS site. It's V8.24b and didn't work in this case. I've tried the one from the CD (8.23z) and now it loads the BIOS File. But after loading, i get this message: The program file's BIOS-Lock String does not match with your system i've tried with all BIOS versions (1006, 1007, 1008 and 1011), the message is always the same. Any idea? Greetz Doris doris, make ABSOLUTELY SURE you got the right bios for the right board in the first place. You are probably getting bios for A7N8X-deluxe and not A7N8X E-deluxe you do not want to screw this up gordon |
"Doris Heid" wrote in message ... Hi Ken, "Ken Maltby" wrote You have a startup floppy disk with awdflash.exe and the new BIOS file you have named 1011.bin? You start your system with that floppy in the drive, and type "awdflash"? Then you enter "A:\1011.bin"? You have nothing good to save so you enter No to the save question. And now you get the error msg "Source File Not Found!"? no...no..no.. ;-) okay, maybe my first discription was not complete...there is no boot..first thing i see is: AWARD BootBlock BIOS V1.0 Copyright blabla... BIOS ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive A media ... INSERT SYSTEM DISk AND PRESS ENTER on this disk is the latest awdflash.exe and the 1011.bin. i insert it and press enter. The next is the following line: What is this:? Automatic load AWDFLASH.EXE Are you saying that you see "Automatic load AWDFLASH.EXE" displayed on your screen? after loading, the cursor is at the bottom left and in the AWDFLASh Window at the bottom line you can read "Source File Not Found" i get no chance, to type in any filename, can leave this screen only with reset. strg, alt + del wouldn't work. Greetz Doris This sounds like you somehow have a floppy startup disk that has an autoexec.bat with a line like: "awdflash A:\XXXXX.XXX /x/x/x" Where the file named is not your 1011.bin or is not exactly entered right. What is on that floppy? And if it has an autoexec.bat, what's in it? Luck; Ken |
Hi,
I have the exact same problem as Doris, has anyone else figured it out? I also tried the below: My motherboard (Asus A7N8X Deluxe) bios is screwed, it seems to be corrupted. I tried to update the bios from Windows XP using Asus Update Utility to the latest v1008 and rebooted. Then from here on... it keeps booting up to the Award BootBlock v1.0 ... I have tried to flash with Asus's awdflash.exe and the correct bin files (tried all of them), it keeps telling me that its not the right image file crap. I've been down more than a week now.. Asus was not able to help ... I was research all over the internet and came across a few postings from different forums .. and the closest situation to my problem were the people who mentioned this guy Dos-Freaks' method or utility - it worked for a few people, but its not working for me so far. Here is what I did... - I made a bootdisk from Windows XP - I downloaded your awdblock file which contains awdflash.txt, awdflash.exe , awdflash.asm, and then copied into the bootdisk I created. - I created autoexec.bat containing below and copied to bootdisk. --------------------------------------------------------- @ECHO OFF FLASH AN8D1008.BIN /py /sn /cd /cc /cp /R /nbl --------------------------------------------------------- - I renamed the original awdflash.exe to flash.exe and copied to bootdisk. * then I inserted bootdisk and start up the computer, it started up and says the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Automatic Load AWDFLASH.EXE ...... * Initializing disk Load bootsector Executing bootsector: Invalid system disk Replace! the disk, and then press any key ------------------------------------------------------------------- and it keeps repeating this the above... Invalid system...etc I would be so grateful if anyone can help me out.. Thanks!!! -p Gordon Scott wrote in message ... Doris Heid wrote: Hi, i have fixed one Problem to get an other.:( First problern was the AWDFLASH from the ASUS site. It's V8.24b and didn't work in this case. I've tried the one from the CD (8.23z) and now it loads the BIOS File. But after loading, i get this message: The program file's BIOS-Lock String does not match with your system i've tried with all BIOS versions (1006, 1007, 1008 and 1011), the message is always the same. Any idea? Greetz Doris doris, make ABSOLUTELY SURE you got the right bios for the right board in the first place. You are probably getting bios for A7N8X-deluxe and not A7N8X E-deluxe you do not want to screw this up gordon |
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