A7N8X-E Deluxe updating BIOS

[Anders Jakobsson]

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

 

[Ken Maltby]

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

 

[Anders Jakobsson]

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

 

[Sam]

Sometime on, or about Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:06:19 GMT, Anders Jakobsson
wrote:

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

 

[Anders]

Sometime on, or about Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:06:19 GMT, Anders Jakobsson
wrote:


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

Thanks!!

That worked very nice!!

Anders J

 

[texterted]

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

Hi Anders

I had exactly the same issues...
I used the Asus os utility to flash to 1011. (eek!)
However, after doing so my machine blue screened
with a stop error and I couldn't recover without a
repair install... not good!
Works ok now though....

Good luck!
Cheers
Ted

 

[GF]

Hi Anders

I had exactly the same issues...
I used the Asus os utility to flash to 1011. (eek!)
However, after doing so my machine blue screened
with a stop error and I couldn't recover without a
repair install... not good!
Works ok now though....

Good luck!
Cheers
Ted

I also had to repair install after moving from 1009.

 

[Sam]

Thanks!!

That worked very nice!!

Anders J

Great!! Glad to hear it.

Sam

 

[Malcolm]

Hi, I just thought id register to say that I had the exact same
problem (It froze completely after "Do you want to program the
bios"?)

After that I was pretty much too scared to try again because I thought
i may damage the bios permanently. But thanks to sam's technique (the
command switches - i used the AWDFLASH off the asus website) it
worked great.

Thanks again Sam!

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