[A7V8X-X] EZ-Flash problem

[Stanley Krute]

Hi

Just put together a system with an A7V8X-X,
board rev 1.01.

It came with BIOS 1003. I had some problems
with the system, so thought I'd try the latest
BIOS, 1005.

I got the BIOS from the Asus website.

This board has a new EZ Flash feature. Just
press Alt-F2 during bootup, and it goes right
into a flash writing utility. Insert a floppy with
the BIOS file, and it'll grab and write it. Saves
booting up into DOS and running aflash.exe.

So I tried it out.

Problem: EZ Flash only wrote to the Main BIOS area.
It did NOT write to the Boot Block area. It did
not present that option. The manual shows that
EZ Flash should show that option.

Aaaarrrgghhh !

Upon reboot, the machine was, as you might
imagine, a tad whacked out.

I rebooted with a booting floppy, ran aflash.exe
2.07 -- 2.21 complained that my BIOS chip
was too old to flash -- and got the BIOS updated
happily to 1005.

All is well.

However, I thought it'd be good to warn others.

Also: Has anyone else seen this behavior ?

Thanks

Stan Krute

 

[Stanley Krute]

Hi Mike

Thanks for the response.

My experience with flashing using EZ Flash included the option to write the
boot block (as in Y/N).

Was that with the 1003 BIOS ?

Stan