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update method BIOS 1014 for P4P800 deluxe
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 |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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"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 |
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"Navid" wrote "Ice D" wrote 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 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. Ok, that's the way I'm doing it. I've read somewhere that the correct syntax is: afudos /iP4P81014.AMI Can you confirm that? 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. Thanks for the advive, I will load defaults right after I've flashed (those beeps are my main reason to update as well, very annoying! ;-) Ice D |
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"Ice D" wrote in message
... "Navid" wrote "Ice D" wrote 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 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. Ok, that's the way I'm doing it. I've read somewhere that the correct syntax is: afudos /iP4P81014.AMI Can you confirm that? 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. Thanks for the advive, I will load defaults right after I've flashed (those beeps are my main reason to update as well, very annoying! ;-) Ice D Please don't get me wrong. But, I will not confirm the syntax. I don't want my memory hiccup to result in your computer turning into a plant-stand or door-stop! The safest thing to do is to type afudos with no arguments. It will give you the correct syntax. Nothing else will happen. You can even hit Ctrl-alt-Del right away and get out without flashing. |
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"Navid" wrote "Ice D" wrote in message Ok, that's the way I'm doing it. I've read somewhere that the correct syntax is: afudos /iP4P81014.AMI Can you confirm that? Please don't get me wrong. But, I will not confirm the syntax. I don't want my memory hiccup to result in your computer turning into a plant-stand or door-stop! But then who am I going to blame when it all goes horribly wrong? ;-) The safest thing to do is to type afudos with no arguments. It will give you the correct syntax. Nothing else will happen. You can even hit Ctrl-alt-Del right away and get out without flashing. I got it, just 'afudos' with nothing else, and the syntax will appear on the screen. Cheers again, Ice D |
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"Maximus" wrote 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. I will keep it in mind, but I'll probably go the afudos way now. There seem to be quite a few differences of opinion about BIOS flashing, but at one point you have to decide which method is best. I'm pretty sure I'll be fine. Ice D |
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- for the record -
Just confirming that the BIOS update went fine, using a bootable floppy wth afudos and the BIOS file copied to that. At the prompt I gave the command: afudos.exe /iP4P81014.AMI /n /pnbc I made a backup of the old BIOS first on another bootable floppy first (containing startup files and afudos.exe) with the command: afudos.exe /oP4P800.ROM (as described he http://www.techsupportforum.com/comp...ic/7734-1.html) Thanks again, Ice D "Navid" wrote "Ice D" wrote in message Ok, that's the way I'm doing it. I've read somewhere that the correct syntax is: afudos /iP4P81014.AMI Can you confirm that? Please don't get me wrong. But, I will not confirm the syntax. I don't want my memory hiccup to result in your computer turning into a plant-stand or door-stop! |
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