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Sometime on, or about Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:04:27 GMT, Anders wrote:
> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:1ckeqn2mogucx$.1crfqrp89tm2g$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Sometime on, or about Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:06:19 GMT, Anders Jakobsson
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> skrev i meddelandet
>>> news:410d3e47$0$73194$a32e20b9@news.nntpservers.com...
>>>>
>>>> "Anders Jakobsson" <anders.REMOVETHIS.b12.ANDTHIS@tele2.se> wrote in
>>> message
>>>> news:uI2Pc.99784$dP1.343031@newsc.telia.net...
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> My first time with the above mentioned motherboard is puzzling me.
>>>> Reported
>>>>> BIOS is 1009 and on the ASUS website is version 1011 available for
>>>> download.
>>>>> I've tried to update to version 1011 but the Awdflash (8.23z and
> 8.24b)
>>>>> backs up the previous BIOS and then just stops as it should begin
>>> writing
>>>>> the new BIOS. Furthermore there is no version 1009 available for
>>> download
>>>>> from ASUS. Am I missing something here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anders J
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure it hasn't stopped while backing up the previous
>>>> BIOS? If you made an XP dos start-up disk and put both
>>>> Awdflash and the 1011 file, the old BIOS won't fit on the
>>>> floppy. What I do is have a formatted disk, with plenty of room,
>>>> that I swap with my flashing boot floppy just long enough to save
>>>> the old BIOS. This may mean that I have to restart the flash and
>>>> not select to save the old BIOS (since I now have it on a floppy)
>>>> but all goes well after that.
>>>>
>>>> The version 1009 and also 1010 BIOS have a mysterious
>>>> past, that no one seems to be willing to discuss. I suspect it's all
>>>> part of a vast Taiwanese conspiracy.
>>>>
>>>> Luck;
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use a Windows 98 boot disk with just the system files (Config.sys and
>>> Autoexec.bat are empty). The program backs up the old BIOS all right,
> and I
>>> am presented with an option "Press 'Y' to program 'N' to exit". If I
> press N
>>> the program exits, if I press Y nothing happens. Strange enough the
> built-in
>>> flasher behaves exactly the same.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Anders J
>>
>> Are you using the Awdflash that came on the CD with your MB? If not,
>> try that one. I typically put the BIOS file and Awdflash on a separate
>> floppy from the boot one. Why? There's not enough room to hold the
>> backup BIOS file and everything else on a single floppy. So try
>> booting from the boot floppy. Then, from the A:\ prompt, swap disks
>> and put in your BIOS floppy. If you want to automate things a bit, try
>> using this command:
>> "awdflash C18E1011.BIN BIOS.OLD /py /sy /cd /cp /cc /LD /E"
>>
>> You will need to reset all of your changes in BIOS after you do this.
>>
>> Sam
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>
> Thanks!!
>
> That worked very nice!!
>
> Anders J
Great!! Glad to hear it.
Sam
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