Flashing P55T2P4 Rev 3.10

[Timo Gransch]

Hi,

I got an old Computer with an Asus P55T2P4 revision 3.10 mainboard from a
colleague. I had the 3.0 revision of this board a long time ago, and I
remember having flashed it's BIOS successfully. Unfortunately, I didn't
manage to flash the BIOS of the newer version of the board. Asus offers the
aflash utility for doing so. I booted from a MS DOS 6.22 floppy without
autoexec.bat and any memory managers like I'm told by the documentation,
but the initial screen of aflash tells me "Flash Memory Type: Unknown". In
news groups, the suggestion is to use another flash utility like pflash in
this case, but I didn't find any download location for this. Any advice?
Is it possible that revision 3.10 of the P55T2P4 does not have a flashable
BIOS anymore? Compared to the older revision, the quality seems a little
bit more simple (not to say cheap) in general, in fact I would not be
surprised if Asus saved another few pennies here.

Thanks for your help!
Timo

 

[Ronald Cole]

I got an old Computer with an Asus P55T2P4 revision 3.10 mainboard from a
colleague. I had the 3.0 revision of this board a long time ago, and I
remember having flashed it's BIOS successfully. Unfortunately, I didn't
manage to flash the BIOS of the newer version of the board. Asus offers the
aflash utility for doing so. I booted from a MS DOS 6.22 floppy without
autoexec.bat and any memory managers like I'm told by the documentation,
but the initial screen of aflash tells me "Flash Memory Type: Unknown". In
news groups, the suggestion is to use another flash utility like pflash in
this case, but I didn't find any download location for this. Any advice?
Is it possible that revision 3.10 of the P55T2P4 does not have a flashable
BIOS anymore? Compared to the older revision, the quality seems a little
bit more simple (not to say cheap) in general, in fact I would not be
surprised if Asus saved another few pennies here.

While flashing the 2.07 beta 2 bios, I recall having no luck with the
aflash or pflash on the ASUS site and that I had to use the flash util
that came on the mainboard CD.

 

[Stephan Grossklass]

Hi,

I got an old Computer with an Asus P55T2P4 revision 3.10 mainboard from a
colleague. I had the 3.0 revision of this board a long time ago, and I
remember having flashed it's BIOS successfully. Unfortunately, I didn't
manage to flash the BIOS of the newer version of the board.

Use pflash2 from
<ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/BIOS_FLASH_UTILS/DOS/OLD_FLASHER/>,
that should work. In case it doesn't, use pflash.

Stephan

 

[ztip guy]

Did you physically move the jumpers on the mainboard to allow for flashing?

That is definitely a pre-requisite step on the T2P4. Oh well, T2P4's only
have 2 or 3 years of life left in 'em anyways before the battery runs dead.