P4P800 1016 BIOS

[Paul]

Hi all, anyone update to this BIOS yet?

I dont know whats going on, BUT today
my system hung checking the NVRAM.

I had to clear the bios jumper to get into BIOS.

The funny thing is, I have a USB 1.1 HUB,
which is powered (it has a digital cam, scanner, and USB
mouse) plugged into it. I noticed that when I unplugged
the power to the HUB, the PC booted a OK.
(this is only since, I updated to 1016).

BUT when it is on (it did work after I updated to 1016)
it hangs the system on bootup? Anyone else have
this prob with this BIOS update? I know the HUB isnt
the prob, coz as soon as I plug the power back into
the HUB after XP loads, the things connected to it, do work. It isnt XP, I
have all the updates installed (SP1)
etc. Any info appreciated. Cheers

 

[Antuur]

Paul,

today I tried upgrading my BIOS to 1016 (coming from 1014). First I set my
BIOS to default values (except boot HD since this is a SATA drive), I
restarted win2000 (stupid wasn't it ;-(), I shut down every non-essential
program and started the BIOS update utility from ASUS. It was the correct
version (5.22 someting) as requested by the update. When it was
reprogramming, the computer frooze at 42% !!!! Now, I'm stuck with a
non-working motherboard ! Crashfree BIOS ????????? Bull*. Not a single beep
comes out of the PC. I didn't flash to 1015 since I heard there were some
problems with it. I hope I can get a new BIOS chip here (Belgium). It serves
me right, trying to flash my BIOS when in windows, I know. But the previous
flash worked out, so why not do it again. I'm writing this answer to warn
everyone NOT to flash in windows (2000 SP4).Maybe it's this version, maybe
not. I will allways flash my BIOS using a floppy from this moment on !

Regards,

Tuur

 

[Antuur]

Paul,

today I tried upgrading my BIOS to 1016 (coming from 1014). First I set my
BIOS to default values (except boot HD since this is a SATA drive), I
restarted win2000 (stupid wasn't it ;-(), I shut down every non-essential
program and started the BIOS update utility from ASUS. It was the correct
version (5.22 someting) as requested by the update. When it was
reprogramming, the computer frooze at 42% !!!! Now, I'm stuck with a
non-working motherboard ! Crashfree BIOS ????????? Bull*. Not a single beep
comes out of the PC. I didn't flash to 1015 since I heard there were some
problems with it. I hope I can get a new BIOS chip here (Belgium). It serves
me right, trying to flash my BIOS when in windows, I know. But the previous
flash worked out, so why not do it again. I'm writing this answer to warn
everyone NOT to flash in windows (2000 SP4).Maybe it's this version, maybe
not. I will allways flash my BIOS using a floppy from this moment on !

Regards,

Tuur

 

[Paul]

lol. Yup the thing with these P4P800's
is they have this EZ bios thing built in.

LOL. And then they bring out a new version
of the BIOS. And you HAVE to use AFUDOS

What was the point of having the EZ dos built in?

It's hopeless now lol. I take it, its not the mobo
you typed this reply on Antuur? What you can try
is with Crashfree BIOS, I think you can format
a floppy, chuck the BIOS on it, and AFUDOS
which comes with the BIOS update. See if the PC
comes on. (Does the PC work at all)?

Short the BIOS jumper and reset it.

See what happens. If you can get the PC to go.
Go into the BIOS. Change bootdisk to the floppy.

Chuck the floppy in and see what happens. If a prompt
comes up, type afudos /ip4p81016.rom and hopefully
it does something / flash! Umm, yup I dont trust
the window flash utility. Never used it. I have used
DOS all the time (from a floppy).

(Don't use the EZ thing built in). That may make it
worse. The later BIOS updates, DO come with AFUDOS. I think thats why ASUS
put it in the zip
file. Nah dont think it was Win2000 that caused
the bad flash. It specifically comes with AFUDOS
the update. As thats what you're meant to use.

Hope you get it fixed!

 

[Paul]

Umm, there is also no need to set
the defaults, before you update the BIOS.

Well, I dont. It still flashes Antuur.

You'll most probably have to set the BIOS
up again,after the BIOS flashes anyway.

As sometimes, it'll you that the BIOS config is
wrong. This has happened to me a few times.

 

[Jim Davis Nature Photography]

me right, trying to flash my BIOS when in windows, I know. But the previous
flash worked out, so why not do it again. I'm writing this answer to warn
everyone NOT to flash in windows (2000 SP4).Maybe it's this version, maybe
not. I will allways flash my BIOS using a floppy from this moment on !

Ya, I flashed with a floppy and it worked great and was very easy to
do. Not sure what version, but I think the latest.

 

[~]

flashed and notice no diff from bios 1010.........everything seems fine

 

[Paul]

Yup, I dont know what it may have been

BUT it looks like it's behaving itself now!

It IS booting and not hanging at the
checking NVRAM prompt now. Maybe it didn't
flash properly or something the first time.

I d/l the BIOS update again, and reflashed.

Which may have done the trick.

So, far , so good!

 

[Stephen SM WONG]

Just want to check whether it's my isolated problem.

1. I had flashed a P4P800 Deluxe mainboard to 1016 BIOS.
When Asus Probe is run in Windows2K/XP, in DMI viewer of
Asus Probe, it still says the board is with 1009 BIOS.

2. The power up POST screen says that the BIOS is 1016, but
in setup, system info screen, it still says the BIOS is
1009.

Do you have any of the above problem?

Stephen Wong @ Hong Kong

 

[Paul]

Yup it says the same on mine Stephen
in PC Probe. 080009. The bootup says 1016.

So, NO it's not just your PC, this shows on.

I dont think that applies to the version of the BIOS
the info in PC Probe. It might be a string that
identifies the BIOS version....

 

[Stephen SM WONG]

I think it's a "missed string update" from the BIOS
programmer. If the 080009 string can be programmed in the
first place, I see there is no reason to not update it to
reflect the version of the BIOS. I had mailed to
support@asus 2 times (a few months before), but no reply so
far.

My 2 cents.

Stephen Wong @ Hong Kong

 

[Burkhard Schultheis]

Paul,

today I tried upgrading my BIOS to 1016 (coming from 1014). First I set my
BIOS to default values (except boot HD since this is a SATA drive), I
restarted win2000 (stupid wasn't it ;-(), I shut down every non-essential
program and started the BIOS update utility from ASUS. It was the correct
version (5.22 someting) as requested by the update. When it was
reprogramming, the computer frooze at 42% !!!! Now, I'm stuck with a
non-working motherboard ! Crashfree BIOS ????????? Bull*. Not a single beep
comes out of the PC. I didn't flash to 1015 since I heard there were some
problems with it. I hope I can get a new BIOS chip here (Belgium). It serves
me right, trying to flash my BIOS when in windows, I know. But the previous
flash worked out, so why not do it again. I'm writing this answer to warn
everyone NOT to flash in windows (2000 SP4).Maybe it's this version, maybe
not. I will allways flash my BIOS using a floppy from this moment on !

Today I have the same problem as you. Is your computer running again?

Regards,

 

[Paul]

I think from 1014+ you're meant to use
AFUDOS. Which comes with the BIOS
update. And it can ONLY be updated from DOS
and from floppy. Not from Windows.

It did specifically tell people to use
Afudos, when you downloaded the bios update
from the ASUS site (when it was up)

 

[Ollie]

Paul,

I did upgrade to 1016.001 last week. As part of the upgrade, I did download
new version of Asus Update (5.23.02), because this version of BIOS is not
upgradeable with older versions. Perhaps your symptoms are the reasons why
the web site hints that you have to do the upgrade.

I the website knows that, why ASUS has not integrated this information
inside BIOS and Update programs to prevent these type of disasters.

My sympathy and $0.02 comments, Ollie

 

[Burkhard Schultheis]

I think from 1014+ you're meant to use
AFUDOS. Which comes with the BIOS
update. And it can ONLY be updated from DOS
and from floppy. Not from Windows.

It did specifically tell people to use
Afudos, when you downloaded the bios update
from the ASUS site (when it was up)

flash.txt 1016:

Warning:
This BIOS can only be flashed with the following flashtool versions (or
higher versions) !
Do NOT use older versions !

- ASUS LiveUpdate v5.23.01
- ASUS AFUDOS v2.07

 

[Burkhard Schultheis]

Now a college has flashed my Flash-ROM with an external device (1016).
But than my computer said "wrong checksum", got the old Bios from the
Asus-CD. Again I tried it with Alt-F2 from the floppy, "wrong checksum".
Back to the Bios from the CD, created a floppy with afudos and Bios
1016, and now it's OK

Regards,

 

[Will]

Um, a question about the P4P800 Delux and BIOS versions and how they are
reported.

On my K7V, the BIOS version appeared on the startup screen. With this
board, you evidently have to go into the BIOS setup to see what version
you have. Which leads to my question ...

The information that appears in BIOS setup either makes no sense ... or
I was unable to flash the BIOS correctly ... not sure which.

I downloaded 1016 and flashed it using the version of AFUDOS that came
in the .ZIP archive with it. Seemed to work fine, but when I view the
BIOS information I see:

Version 08.00.09
Build date 02/23/04
ID P4P81097

The build date would seem to indicate success, but why doesn't it say
something like version 1016?

Will

 

[Paul]

Yup you got it Burk. From now on
I'll use Afudos. If it comes with the update again

 

[Paul]

well it does on my bootup it shows 1016.

BUT in PC Probe it says 080009. I dont know
what this is. Thought it might be a string to identify
the BIOS or version of it. It definitely isnt the
version of the BIOS

 

[Paul]

Hmm the website didnt tell me to get
the 1016 update. I just thought I'll get it while it
was out.