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AWWWW! OH THE PAIN!!! CRAPOLA! and GOSH DARNIT!!!

T

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AARRGGHHH! My first Motherboard BIOS flash failure!!! Oh the pain!

My CUSL2 with the 1003 Bios has been running PERFECTLY! But I'm never satisfied NNOOO!

I've used the ASUS utility for flashing in W2K several times and it always worked fine. Updated to latest version and downloaded V1006. Started the program and everything went hunky-dory. Flash went OK. Screen popped up asking if I wanted to restart computer....put my mouse cursor on the yes....and just as I hit the button...THE DAMNED RESTART BUTTON DISAPPERAED! And I'll bet you can't guess what was right underneath and got pushed instead......Yep, you guessed it! The button to flash!...and as I watched in horror as the flash utility started to flash again...as the computer started to reboot!

DAMN YOU ASUS!

Bummer!:|
 

That truly does $uck 🙂 ..but as they say, you should NEVER EVER flash
if there's no actual need for it 😉

But I guess you already knew that.

Gotta get my hands on one of these
 
That's part of the problem....on the ASUS boards the chip is not replaceable. Somewhere I've seen a board with it's own bios that allows a reflash, but I've looked for it in vain.

Oh well, I've ordered a CUSL2-C and will contact ASUS and try to get this one fixed.

 
Hmmm, that's a really useful device.
If only I knew this, before I did a RMA.
I feel your pain, Tom.
I lost my bios on pro2a, rma'ed the board. The board came back, after I got Turbo.:|
I don't know what to do with the pro2a.
 
Well, let's see....there is no reset jumper for the BIOS, so I removed the battery for 10 minutes with the PS unplugged. Reconnected PS and tried to reboot, no go. Replaced battery and still no go. I also used the onboard video.

I-Panel shows zip regarding startup codes.

Drives are detected or at least the lights flash, and if I could see what was going on might try to reflash from a diskette, but without any video no joy.

If anyone has anyother ideas, I'm all ears.🙁
 
Well, if you can go to floppy on the bootup, it might work. I heard some people worked it out. Good luck.

For AMI BIOS:

Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a floppy disk. e.g. Rename A569MS23.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM
Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system and press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. It will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover the BIOS from the A drive.
When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk and restart the computer.

For Award BIOS:

Make a bootable floopy disk
Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin
Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes out)
Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.
 
I've read of references to the boot disk flash, but never seen anyone elaborate...thanks..I'll give it a try.

NOPE! Not enough space on the disk for everything.🙁

 
I tried with Award bios last time, but the system couldn't boot to floppy.
The disk space should not be a problem.
 
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