asus ez flash 2

[bassmasta]

well, a new bios is out for my board, and it has some things that i need. the issue is that ez flash 2 doesn't like ntfs, which is how my hd is formatted. My flash drive is dead for whatever reason, so I have to resort to my floppy drive. I actually got the drive specifcally for bios flashing. the issue now, though, is that for whatever reason, when it was installed, vista automatically decided that it should be drive b. well, ez flash 2 on recognises a,c, and usb. does anyone know how to re-name a drive, or can anyone reccomend a good flashing utility?

 

[Mediocre]

I hope you're not trying to flash from within windows...thats very dangerous (not sure how dangerous it is in vista but...)

Create 2 floppies -> One 'MS Dos' boot floppy, I made a long time ago with windows XP home.

The second floppy has the appropriate flash utility (from mobo mfg site) and the BIOS.


Put boot floppy in, boot from floppy. Let the floppy boot into MSdos.

Put in BIOS floppy, type afudos /inew.bin and wait for it to finish...



I didn't think drive names mattered when you boot from floppy. The program shouldn't care...

 

[bassmasta]

i can't download another utility from asus, their comment is simply get stuffed and use what we gave you.

 

[Grings]

put the bios on a cd, ez flash can do it that way

 

[mullered07]

go to control panel>administrative tools>disk management and you can assign different drive letters there, i used ez flash in vista for my p5b, try running ez flash in compatibility mode (right clikc ez flash and run as admin and in compatibility for xp sp2 see if that helps, im sure thats what i did

 

[bassmasta]

lol, i cant do it on a disk because ez flash only lets me choose a or c, and I can't change the floppy letter because disk management isn't compatible w/ floppy.

 

[Mediocre]

Let me try and walk you through it...

goto here:

download two things:
Latest BIOS

AFUDOS BIOS FLASHING UTILITYthe command line for afudos is: afudos /i
Take those two and put on a floppy.

MAKE AN MS DOS BOOT FLOPPY:
Right click your floppy drive in 'my computer'. Goto Format...
Inside the format screen choose 'create msdos floppy'

Boot from the floppy.

It should boot to an msdos prompt


so you would see:

B:\>

%0%5ype

B:/> afudos /iNEWBIOS.bin

(note, no space between /i and the new bios' name...TIP - name the bios something simple like new.bin when you put it on the floppy)

I don't understand the problem:

My flash drive is dead for whatever reason, so I have to resort to my floppy drive. I actually got the drive specifcally for bios flashing

Then use it!

lol, i cant do it on a disk because ez flash only lets me choose a or c, and I can't change the floppy letter because disk management isn't compatible w/ floppy.

You wouldn't use ezflash (unless you want to do it within windows...YOU already said you can't do it in windows...) You use AFUDOS to flash the bios from a floppy.


(don't know why you wouldn't download the bios file to the c: and do it from within windows but whatever)


IMHO I wouldn't even update it. IMO you've got a 50/50 chance of screwing something up (hint...hint)

 

[bassmasta]

thanks, i'm going to try it in a minute, but i can't get it off c: because ez flash doesn't like ntfs format.

 

[bassmasta]

>.> floppy disk isn't big enough for dos boot, afudos and bios. also, ezflash 2- as in not the first one- works after bios, but before the os.

 

[Mediocre]

LOL

You need TWO Floppies.

First one is DOS boot disk ONLY.

Second disk should be BARELY big enough for afudos and your bios

Boot on the first floppy, after you're at the A:\> take it out and put the BIOS disk in.

Then type the command:

afudos /iNEWBIOS.bin

You'll get it soon, keep trying

PS - Which prize did you pick for the giveaway...congrats

 

[bassmasta]

i picked the mp3 player

 

[psyko12]

Whats the make of your bios? AMI, Award? On my asus board, ami before getting into post screen I can flash bios with asus ez flash, when pc reads vid card bios/info pres alt+f2, thats the process for my ami asus board.... And even though vista changed floppy drive to any letter, this method reads A: drive as is (floppy) but you got to rename it to (example: P5PEVM.ROM) your mobomodel.rom if it's an AMI type bios, but maybe there are different ways for diff makes of bios's... Hope this helps

 

[bassmasta]

yeah, like i said, my ezflash is very particular about drive letters.... i'm still tring to find another floppy disk for afudos

 

[psyko12]

aw darn, even can't set it on BIOS config to set it to A:?

 

[bassmasta]

lol, i've checked through, and bios doesn't even show a floppy, or any way to detect a floppy other than boot device. i just found a floppy, too...... I hope i can post again in 5 minutes....

 

[bassmasta]

1: my killer nic is being a jackass after update, and 2: what's the big fuss about bios flashing? you turn on the program, go to the washroom, and when you come back, restart the pc.

 

[bassmasta]

stupid x fi still not working.... thanks for the help though

 

[Mediocre]

I hope you didn't download the 'optional software' update from M$ update...for some reason, when I download that driver (the one @ windows update for x-fi), my sound gets all screwy...

As far as x-fi, I usually just use the drivers on the CD. Just install the whole suite, it has some cool applications on it

 

[bassmasta]

lol, I only download security updates from m$ because my pc doesn't tell me it's doing it, so I try to avoid any drivers/ software they offer me.