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Question about updating BIOS with awdflash.exe

Link19

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I just purchased a new ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard and updated to the latest BIOS. I made a bootable DOS diskette and another disk with the latest BIOS file and the awdflash.exe utility. I entered the adwflash utility and inputed the file name of the BIOS for my motherboard and it began flashing. it said it successfully flashed at the end.

However, my question is this. You know the bar and color code that displays the portion of the BIOS being flashed and how much has been flashed is represented by a color code. White means the portion that has been flashed and blue means un flahsed. At the end of it, all of it was white expect like two blocks which remained blue?? Is that normal, or does it mean some of it didn't get flashed properly? My system boots and seems just fine. But I just want to know why a small portion of the BIOS flashing program remianed blue which indicates an unflahsed area? Almost all of it was white though? Is that just a display bug in the awdflash utility? even though my system seems fine, I am still boithered and worried about why some of the flash display chart remained blue?
 
But I just want to know why a small portion of the BIOS flashing program remianed blue which indicates an unflahsed area? Almost all of it was white though?
Typically, the boot block area is not updated by default, unless you force it with a command line switch. Not to worry unless the block color represents a 'failed' update.
 
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