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A7N8X-E De Bios Upgrade Woes
I've been trying to upgrade my bios to the latest version 1012-e but
am having problems. To begin, using an NTFS based HD, how could you even think of saving the BIOS anywhere if you are booting up with DOS/early Windows? None of those OS will read the NTFS partitions. Second and more important, I can't seem to get past that first backup screen. I get prompted after I say "no" to back up the bios with "do you want to program" and then I answer "yes" but it just hangs there and does nothing, requiring me to reset. Has anyone had this problem? Should I upgrade to 1012-E? I'm primarily doing so because installing WIndows SP-1a has wreaked havoc on the multimedia center for my ATI All In Wonder video card and I'm getting crashes launching the TV with a blank screen or muxed screen. I've done everything and nothing seems to work. Help is appreciated.... MJ |
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OK, more issues. I think I backed up my current bios by swapping the
floppy disk but then I get a "file not found" error or something like that. I have the same problem if I try to use awdflash booting up and hitting alt-f2 because it won't find a floppy where the file is located. How on earth do you upgrade the bios on this thing? It does NOT work like the asus web site instructions say it should. On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:05:33 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: I've been trying to upgrade my bios to the latest version 1012-e but am having problems. To begin, using an NTFS based HD, how could you even think of saving the BIOS anywhere if you are booting up with DOS/early Windows? None of those OS will read the NTFS partitions. Second and more important, I can't seem to get past that first backup screen. I get prompted after I say "no" to back up the bios with "do you want to program" and then I answer "yes" but it just hangs there and does nothing, requiring me to reset. Has anyone had this problem? Should I upgrade to 1012-E? I'm primarily doing so because installing WIndows SP-1a has wreaked havoc on the multimedia center for my ATI All In Wonder video card and I'm getting crashes launching the TV with a blank screen or muxed screen. I've done everything and nothing seems to work. Help is appreciated.... MJ |
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OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use
windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:32:56 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK, more issues. I think I backed up my current bios by swapping the floppy disk but then I get a "file not found" error or something like that. I have the same problem if I try to use awdflash booting up and hitting alt-f2 because it won't find a floppy where the file is located. How on earth do you upgrade the bios on this thing? It does NOT work like the asus web site instructions say it should. On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:05:33 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: I've been trying to upgrade my bios to the latest version 1012-e but am having problems. To begin, using an NTFS based HD, how could you even think of saving the BIOS anywhere if you are booting up with DOS/early Windows? None of those OS will read the NTFS partitions. Second and more important, I can't seem to get past that first backup screen. I get prompted after I say "no" to back up the bios with "do you want to program" and then I answer "yes" but it just hangs there and does nothing, requiring me to reset. Has anyone had this problem? Should I upgrade to 1012-E? I'm primarily doing so because installing WIndows SP-1a has wreaked havoc on the multimedia center for my ATI All In Wonder video card and I'm getting crashes launching the TV with a blank screen or muxed screen. I've done everything and nothing seems to work. Help is appreciated.... MJ |
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Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail
wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam -- To mail me, please get rid of the BS first |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam
wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:00:42 -0400, fbionyourtail
wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... OK I've FREAKING HAD IT WITH THIS POS. I tried loading my current BIOS which I saved and even THAT one says "unknown flash type." What in the blazes is GOING ON HERE???? |
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I just used the Alt-F2 method to flash the bios. I know this is a stupid
question, but I have to ask. Did you unzip the file? Put it on the root of the floppy as 1012-E.bin. "fbionyourtail" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... |
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The alt-F2 method just hangs there. I formatted a floppy with nothing
on and put the file, unzipped, extracted as is on the floppy as 1012-E.bin. What did you do exactly to flash the bios using alt-F2? Nothing seems to work... Thanks much! On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:34:40 GMT, "DDStech" wrote: I just used the Alt-F2 method to flash the bios. I know this is a stupid question, but I have to ask. Did you unzip the file? Put it on the root of the floppy as 1012-E.bin. "fbionyourtail" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... |
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Tried using your method -- I got a "file not found" error. Didn't
matter what file I put on the floppy but for whatever reason it seems that the bios tool is not seeing the floppy. Bizarre and driving me crazy. On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:34:40 GMT, "DDStech" wrote: I just used the Alt-F2 method to flash the bios. I know this is a stupid question, but I have to ask. Did you unzip the file? Put it on the root of the floppy as 1012-E.bin. "fbionyourtail" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... |
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Well, at the boot screen, I just hit alt-f2, then the flash utility asked
for the file name, then it loads it off the floppy and flashed the bios. However, I was having problems posting/booting etc with this board (another thread perhaps?), so, I set the system to 100mhz FSB. You might want to try that to make sure the problems you're experiencing aren't related to system hangs. Once you flash the bios, you can set the system back to "normal". I have had many problems getting this board to get past post and not hang or blue screen upon booting. If it wasn't for my old DDR133 chips from my old system, I believe I would never have got this board to work. Oddly enough, after a successfull posting with DDR133 memory, and setting all values to auto and 200mhz fsb, I could then install my DDR400 chips and boot without any problems. Now I am stable with this configuration, however, I cannot understand why after reseting defaults, the DDR400 wont post. "fbionyourtail" wrote in message ... The alt-F2 method just hangs there. I formatted a floppy with nothing on and put the file, unzipped, extracted as is on the floppy as 1012-E.bin. What did you do exactly to flash the bios using alt-F2? Nothing seems to work... Thanks much! On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:34:40 GMT, "DDStech" wrote: I just used the Alt-F2 method to flash the bios. I know this is a stupid question, but I have to ask. Did you unzip the file? Put it on the root of the floppy as 1012-E.bin. "fbionyourtail" wrote in message . .. On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:41 -0700, Sam wrote: Sometime on, or about Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:05:19 -0400, fbionyourtail wrote: OK - The problem with everyone having awdflash is that you cannot use windows or any variety to create the dos disk. I downloaded a dos 6.2 imager and that worked fine after stripping off all the extra. Problem now is that 1012-e is giving me an error "unknown flash type." Say what? This is the bios from the asus site for the a7n8x-e deluxe, which i own! As you discovered, you need just a plain DOS disk. I've found that I can create one from XP by just typing format a: /s at the command prompt. You'll get a basic bootable DOS floppy that way. This floppy doesn't need to read NTFS... it's not writing or reading anything to the hard-drive. I'd recommend saying yes to backing up the BIOS before flashing it, just in case something goes wrong. However, you do have to be sure there's enough room on the floppy for the old BIOS file (somewhere around 512K). What I do is put the flash and bios on a separately formatted (non-bootable) disk, and just swap at the A:\ prompt to do the flash. Sam Thanks Sam -- I was able to save the backup on the same disk. That still doesn't prevent that damn message "unknown flash type" no matter which bios I use. I tried 1012, I tried 1011, it's all the same. What the HELL is going on? I've never had such trouble just trying to flash the bios... BTW, I'm not sure if the XP one works since some of the others I created that way froze up awdflash. I don't know what's flying here and I guess I'm stuck with 1008 and endless crashing with my ATI video card... |
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