"Navid" wrote in message
om...
"Navid" wrote in message
om...
"Ice D" wrote in message
...
I'm updating the BIOS on a new system with P4P800 deluxe mobo
tomorrow,
never flashed mobo BIOS before. I have a question about the method of
updating

There seem to be several methods for updating the BIOS on ASUS mobo's:

1. EzFlash
(however the latest BIOS readme says:
"Please do not use Ezflash for updating this BIOS", so there you go)

2. Asus LiveUpdate
(generally not recommended)

3. Aflash
(don't know much about that)

4. Afudos
(using bootfloppy, recommended method)
---

I'm going to use the Afudos method, got my instructions from this
forum:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showth...threadid=51592

The idea is that you boot to a DOS boot disk, preferably PC DOS
instead
of
WINXP boot floppy. The utility found on that forum to make a DOS boot
disk
didn't work for me however, so I just made a regular WINXP boot
floppy.
Is
that ok too?

Next, the Afudos file. I downloaded 'p4p81014.zip' from ASUS, which
contains
two files: AFUDOS.EXE and P4P81014.AMI. The forum says:

"FINAL BIOS FILES
When you download a new FINAL bios file from Asus once unzipped you
will
find it is an exe file. All you need to do to flash this bios is boot
to
PC-Dos, then with the final bios on another floppy insert it and run
the
exe
file...it will flash automatically"

So I have made floppys, one bootable, one with just the two BIOS files
on
it. I plan to boot to the first floppy, get it out, put the other
floppy
in
(BIOS), and type: afudos [enter].

I expect everything to go smoothly like this.

But would this work ok? According to another site I found, you have to
rename
the 'P4P81014.AMI' to 'P4P800.ROM', or something like that (I didn't
understand the method described there,
http://www.techsupportforum.com/comp...ic/7734-1.html)

Cheers,

Ice D

First, keep in mind that many people recommend to flash the BIOS
if something is wrong with your computer. They say to leave it alone
if everything is fine.

That said, if you want to flash the 1014, Just create an XP MS-DOS
start-up disk by placing a floppy in the drive and right clicking on the
floppy drive on "My Computer" and selecting "Format".
In the new window that opens, select the startup disk choice and hit
"Start".
Then, copy the afudos and bios files to the same floppy.
With this floppy in the drive, reboot.
In DOS, type afudos with no arguments.
A message comes up giving you the correct syntax.
This time follow the syntax and place the name of the BIOS file in place
of filename. You do not need to rename anything.


After you flash, you need to go into the BIOS and load the defaults
for the newly added settings to be initialized. Then, you can change the
settings the way you want.
The reason I flashed 1014 was to not get a beep for every connected
USB device at boot. I flashed, and it still beeped!
I loaded the defaults and it stopped beeping.


I use the Asus Update program because the BIOS 1014 for P4P800 DLX
is NOT recommended to be updated by EZ-Flash. Read the recommendation.

That was the first time I use Asus Update, but it is OK. Much simpler than
EZ-Flash.

If you feel not sure, do NOT use the Afudos program to update,
because ANY mistake will make your board almost surely dead.

Max