"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

I forgot to say I also ruined the BIOS when I tried to flash the bios on
my k8v-se dlx using ezflash. No matter what I tried to do to recover
it would not boot. Apparently because the boot block was munged.
Anyway I got a new BIOS chip from www.badflash.com they'll either
program your old chip or send you a new one. I also sent an e-mail to
asus asking then about a new bios chip, but I haven't heard from them
yet.

Jim M