Hi
Yesterday I downloaded the latest BIOS update for my motherboard (P8H67M-PRO) from the ASUS website, copied the .ROM to a USB drive and updated with the EZ flash 2 utility. However soon after I started getting trouble; this despite having got a message that the update was successful.
I think I've figured out the reason: my USB drive was formatted using NTFS instead of FAT32.
The system refuses to boot from the hard drive after the BIOS screen has finished displaying. I just get the windows logo and the HDD led indicates that it isn't spinning. The HDD itself is ok; this I've already confirmed. (I can also no longer access the EZ flash 2 utility from within the BIOS).
Can still boot from DVD and USB drive. I tried fixing the BIOS with the ASUS bupdater utilility (copied to a USB drive, this time formatted using FAT32) but seems like it isn't doing anything, probably because considers the ROM file identical to what's already on the chip. The utility also refuses to revert to an older BIOS.
Is there any utility around that will let me force erase the BIOS and use whatever version I want? I saw this post but it dates back to 2006 so I thought it would be better to ask in case I screw up something else.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/183341-30-corrupted-bios-flash
Yesterday I downloaded the latest BIOS update for my motherboard (P8H67M-PRO) from the ASUS website, copied the .ROM to a USB drive and updated with the EZ flash 2 utility. However soon after I started getting trouble; this despite having got a message that the update was successful.
I think I've figured out the reason: my USB drive was formatted using NTFS instead of FAT32.
The system refuses to boot from the hard drive after the BIOS screen has finished displaying. I just get the windows logo and the HDD led indicates that it isn't spinning. The HDD itself is ok; this I've already confirmed. (I can also no longer access the EZ flash 2 utility from within the BIOS).
Can still boot from DVD and USB drive. I tried fixing the BIOS with the ASUS bupdater utilility (copied to a USB drive, this time formatted using FAT32) but seems like it isn't doing anything, probably because considers the ROM file identical to what's already on the chip. The utility also refuses to revert to an older BIOS.
Is there any utility around that will let me force erase the BIOS and use whatever version I want? I saw this post but it dates back to 2006 so I thought it would be better to ask in case I screw up something else.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/183341-30-corrupted-bios-flash
And here is the solution.
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