Issue updating M5A97 Bios

montosaurous · Mar 31, 2013

So I've been having issues with sleep for the last month or so and get "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor" Blue screens so I'd like to see if a bios update could fix this. Thing is, all the bios files for download on the Asus website are .CAP and the EZ Flash 2 on my motherboard will only read .ROM files. When I try renaming the file to .ROM and try opening it in EZ Flash 2 I get "Selected File is not a EFI Bios!". Can anyone please help me with this? Thanks in advance.

noidea_77 · Mar 31, 2013

Sorry, but i got a rom file in a zip from here 2 minutes ago: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97/#support_Download_8

montosaurous · Mar 31, 2013

I probably should've added that I had an M5A97 LE R2.0... would the .ROM file from the generic M5A97 still work?

noidea_77 · Mar 31, 2013

Go to the manual and read section "3.10 Updating BIOS" on page 3-29 or 3-31, if you already have the cab file.

montosaurous · Mar 31, 2013

I've already done all of that. It seems to me the issue is it will only use .ROM and ASUS only supplies .CAP files.

montosaurous · Mar 31, 2013

Well I tried the .ROM from the link you gave me... and it worked. THANK YOU.

Cybershaman · Jun 22, 2014

I know this thread is a little "old-ish" but I thought this may help any future cyber-seekers. Especially since the solution is maddening when you hear it.

Basically, you need to rename the BIOS file to the name of the motherboard. Usually this means just removing any extraneous characters from the file name. For example: rename the file M5A97-R20-ASUS-2501.CAP to just M5A97-R20.CAP. Then just flash like normal.

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Cybershaman

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