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Old July 21st 04, 08:52 AM
JBM
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"Charlie Root" wrote in message
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I got a chance to try Asus's crashfree bios2 on my k8v-se-d. That
feature works as well as the Asus's EZFLASH for the board, meaning not
at all.

The EZFLASH program found the new bios on the floppy, correctly erased
the flash, and then griped that it couldn't burn the new bios onto
flash. It effectively stopped there. Hitting the reset didn't cause
the crashfree-bios to find that the old bios in flash was defective
and get a new one from floppy. As far as I could tell it did nothing.
Ditto for putting the distribution CD into the dvd drive as instructed
in the manual. It also didn't load the original distribution bios
back.

I'm just beside myself that some firmware engineer at Asus would write
a flash program that didn't check that everything was in order before
erasing vital information.

-wolfgang


Did you read the instructions for that BIOS upgrade?
Sometimes Asus releases a bios with instructions not
to use the built-in flash utility but to use the most
recent version of asusupdate or afudos or aflash
depending on the chip set.

Jim M