Anyway to recover BIOS from within Vista??

[pzk]

Ok, so I was "smart" enough to use Asus update to flash my P5B deluxe from Vista x64. Flashed OK but failed at verify. After googleing it seems many have had same problem.

I have not rebooted yet because I am pretty sure BIOS is gone and people report there is no way to recover it. Unfortunatly I cant start the Asus Update utility and reflash the BIOS because it just says "No Asus BIOS detected".

Does anyone know of a way to reflash the BIOS otherwise from within Vista x64?

 

[MedicBob]

If there is no BIOS or a bad flash, you will not be able to boot the machine into Windows. Basically reboot it and see what happens.

Dust off a floppy drive and check Asus's site for instructions on how to flash via floppy.

 

[pzk]

Thanks but I am still IN windows now. I am not going to reboot before I have some kind of plan because I am pretty sure is wont boot at all and a floppy wont help.

 

[Absolution75]

You could try using a different BIOS flash utility, WinFlash may work, though its kinda a long shot. Call up ASUS and see what they say.

I've had a bios flash go wrong, it just detected the bad flash and told me to insert a floppy to run a reflash.

But ya, get ready for a blind flash job. Make a bootable floopy/cd/usb with a batch job that will run the flash automatically without user input.

 

[pzk]

Update: I finally rebootet and thank God the boot block was still there and by inserting the original Asus CD that came with the board I restored and old BIOS. After that I flashed the 1238 from within the BIOS. Now I am up and running with my E8400 and 8GB RAM. No problems at all after 1238 update.

 

[zerogear]

Always use EZ-Flash or Q-flash or whatever they're called. Personally, flashing BIOS from Windows environment is just.. *shudders*