Asus p3b-f bios flash

[LordOfAll]

OK here is the story. I hope someone can help me out here.

I look on asus' site to see if I can use a PIII- 800. Requirments are a board rev of 1.03. Got it. I also need at least ver 1004 of the bios. I only have ver 1003. No problem, I will just flash it. I d/l ver 1006 (latest). Make a bootable floppy. Put on the flash utility (aflash) and the 1006 bios. Boot with said floppy. Use it to make a copy of my existing bios, just in case. Flash the new bios and, whoa, checksum error.

I have tried two different floppies, 2 different bios updates (1005 and 1006), and downlaoding them from 2 different ftp sites. I get the same error every time I try. The 1003 bios will go back on and the machine runs just fine.

Any help here would be appreciated.

TIA

 

[Chris A]

Well here is a long shot. When I did my P2bf a few months back I was asking for help and a good friend told me that he encountered the same error you have but he read later to ignore it.. Read it here




<< I'd take the trouble to find all the fine print you can at Asus's site about flashing your present Asus Bios. The last time I flashed my P2B, I couldn't escape a checksum error at the end of the flash process. I wound up flashing the Bios back to the saved >>

 

[LordOfAll]

On the Asus site all it says about this error is to use aflash ver 1.24 or better to fix it. I'm using 1.27. I just don't get it. This should work.

 

[Lore]

I flashed three different P3B-Fs without a problem.

Have you tried flashing from the hard drive instead of the floppy drive? What happens whne you flash with an older BIOS (or newer, if you go to Asus Germany's site)

 

[OJ]

I always flash my P3B-F from the hard drive with a clean boot to the command prompt only. Running a P3700 @ 933 MHz, I have never had any problems.

 

[LordOfAll]

Well I don't think it has anything to do with the media used. The bios files are fine, something else is the problem. Can you tell me the board revision # of the boards you have flashed? Can anyone send me the 1004 flash?

 

[LordOfAll]

Thanks for the help everyone but I fixed the problem the easy way. i just ordered a new bios from Asus. $25 shipped. Ah well, they told me the bios chip was bad.