Updating bios - A7V8X

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Ok, I hang my head in shame, I have never updated a bios on *ANYTHING* ever
:)

Now I need to update the bios on my motherboard in order for it to be
compatible with a new cpu I want (thanks KC for your help there).

I have no FDD (havent for about 5years...), but can steal my brothers (and
find some disks..).

The Asus site only seems to have instructions for the A7N8X motherboard, now
I would assume the intructions for this are the same as for my own board,
but as the saying goes, assumption is the mother of all f**k ups....

If the instructions are the same, I will just follow those, but for a bios
updating newb, what is the basic procedure?

A screw up of the mobo is not too big an issue really, a new SocketA mobo is
only about £30, but still, I'd rather not spend that if I dont have to.

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.
 
you need 3 things

and you can do it from cd

you need a boot disc (same as a boot floppy but on a cd)....download an iso
of a boot cd or create one in Nero by copying all the files needed to nero
and burn it as a bootable disc


you need the program that flashes the bios
and you need the bios itself

you can copy all three things to a boot cd and then use it as if it were a
floppy by gping into bios and set your first boot device to "cd rom"

then you load the bios flashing program then the bios file itself and away
you go
 
Ginchy said:
you need 3 things

and you can do it from cd

you need a boot disc (same as a boot floppy but on a cd)....download an iso
of a boot cd or create one in Nero by copying all the files needed to nero
and burn it as a bootable disc


you need the program that flashes the bios
and you need the bios itself

you can copy all three things to a boot cd and then use it as if it were a
floppy by gping into bios and set your first boot device to "cd rom"

then you load the bios flashing program then the bios file itself and away
you go
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Simple as :) thanks....mind is at rest (have to use FDD as my CD-R is borked
:( ).
 
Ginchy said:
you need 3 things

and you can do it from cd

you need a boot disc (same as a boot floppy but on a cd)....download an iso
of a boot cd
Click to expand...

That'll only work if the boot CD has floppy emulation.
or create one in Nero by copying all the files needed to nero
and burn it as a bootable disc
Click to expand...

With floppy emulation.
you need the program that flashes the bios
and you need the bios itself
Click to expand...

It's usually advisable to back up your current BIOS, using this
technique you can't.

Ben
 
Lief said:
Ok, I hang my head in shame, I have never updated a bios on *ANYTHING* ever
:)

Now I need to update the bios on my motherboard in order for it to be
compatible with a new cpu I want (thanks KC for your help there).

I have no FDD (havent for about 5years...), but can steal my brothers (and
find some disks..).

The Asus site only seems to have instructions for the A7N8X motherboard, now
I would assume the intructions for this are the same as for my own board,
but as the saying goes, assumption is the mother of all f**k ups....

If the instructions are the same, I will just follow those, but for a bios
updating newb, what is the basic procedure?
Click to expand...

Just checked the Asus site - it's erroring all over the show, but I
managed to glean the fact that it uses aflash. The A7N8X uses AWDFlash
and these are different.

Not much point at looking at my site then, but a search on google for
aflash should help.

Another useful tip is to have a bootable floppy-like device with the
"automatically install BIOS from floppy" technique. It's basically an
autoexec that runs the flasher with the correct arguments so that it
does it without user interaction - pretty useful if you have a bad flash
and the video doesn't initialise.

Have fun, and stay clear of the power switch!

Ben
 
Ben Pope said:
Just checked the Asus site - it's erroring all over the show, but I
managed to glean the fact that it uses aflash. The A7N8X uses AWDFlash
and these are different.

Not much point at looking at my site then, but a search on google for
aflash should help.

Another useful tip is to have a bootable floppy-like device with the
"automatically install BIOS from floppy" technique. It's basically an
autoexec that runs the flasher with the correct arguments so that it
does it without user interaction - pretty useful if you have a bad flash
and the video doesn't initialise.

Have fun, and stay clear of the power switch!
Click to expand...

Thanks for the extra help ben, appreciated mate )
 
Not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but will try here first
before creating yet another topic.

Anyway, I have the FDD, I have the bios, I have the flash utility........I
also have win2k and therefore no dos mode.

I have searched the web for the past hour or so and cant find how to execute
the damn utility to update the bios!

Any help here would be good, thanks in advance.
 
Lief said:
Not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but will try here first
before creating yet another topic.

Anyway, I have the FDD, I have the bios, I have the flash utility........I
also have win2k and therefore no dos mode.

I have searched the web for the past hour or so and cant find how to execute
the damn utility to update the bios!

Any help here would be good, thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
DOS mode?
Just boot the machine with the FDD and run the program.. The floppy is
a DOS boot disk.. Most likely Caldera DOS.. To make it a bit easier,
write down the BIOS update filename first,if it has a weird name, so you
don't have to "DIR" to remember it..
 
Lief said:
Not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but will try here first
before creating yet another topic.

Anyway, I have the FDD, I have the bios, I have the flash utility........I
also have win2k and therefore no dos mode.

I have searched the web for the past hour or so and cant find how to execute
the damn utility to update the bios!

Any help here would be good, thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

www.bootdisk.com

Ben
 
Not sure if anyone is still following this thread, but will try here first
before creating yet another topic.

Anyway, I have the FDD, I have the bios, I have the flash utility........I
also have win2k and therefore no dos mode.

I have searched the web for the past hour or so and cant find how to execute
the damn utility to update the bios!

Any help here would be good, thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Try here for a floppy boot disk maker:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Bill
 
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