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Wood$tock · 03-20-2005, 03:54 AM

CAPITAL IDEA MY GOD MAN! CAPITAL!

Well, as I wrote earlier, don't have a Floppy Drive. Because of this I really REALL wanted/needed to get ASUS Update working. However, it didn't look like that was going to happen.

While going thru Asus' site, I clicked on a link to the "Update BIOS Process" by accident. I think that's what it was called, not sure. I'd post a link but I don't have one and as it was I stumbled upon it by accident. I'm sure with a little searching it can be found again if needed.

Anyway, it listed the process for updating your BIOS with a Floppy Disk. Seeing that, I was about to go to another page when I saw in red letters "EZ Flash". I read that and it turns out that this "EZ Flash" is built in to my motherboard (P4C800 Deluxe). Maybe it's built in to all Asus boards I dunno. But it said to hit Alt + F2 at POST to engage EZ Flash. It said once engaged, it would first check the A Drive for anything with a ".ROM" extension. If it found nothing, it would then check the CD Drive. HA!

Just to see if it would work, I restarted and hit Alt+F2. Sure enough, it checked the A Drive (Tried to actually, since I don't have one. It just acted like it couldn't find the file, the fact that I didn't actually have a Floppy drive didn't matter), then the CD Drive. It even said that it "could not find p4c800.rom". That's important becasue when I read that, it reminded me that I read somewhere (again i'm sorry I don't have a link, but I did read it on Asus' site) that, for my mainboard anyway, when I d/l a BIOS update I need to rename it. So I thought, well it checks the CD after the Floppy. I don't have a floppy but I do have a CD Drive and a CDR Drive. HAHA!

So I d/l the latest BIOS, which if I remember correctly was called "p4c81019.rom". I renamed it to "p4c800.rom". I then burned it to a CDR and placed the burned copy in my primary CD Drive. I then restarted and hit Alt+F2 (just like you would hit del to enter BIOS). It checked the floppy (or tried to since I don't have one), then it checked the CD Drive. It said "BIOS Found!", then "Flashing...", then something like "Flash Successfull".

I restarted and WHAM! No more funny beep codes (even after I went in and "personalized" the BIOS). Only 1 beep now, just like it should be. Also, I got to my desktop and everything is as fast and glitch-free as it was before my original CPU died. So, in my case anyway, flashing my BIOS fixed everything.

The only thing i'm kickin myself in the head for is that if I had RTFB right at the beginning I probably would've seen the "EZ Flash" reference and I would have had this thing fixed A LOT faster than it took me to. As it stands I was able to find that reference to "EZ Flash" at Asus' site and take it from there.

03-20-2005, 03:54 AM	#9 (permalink)
Wood$tock Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 11 OS: XP Pro	CAPITAL IDEA MY GOD MAN! CAPITAL! Well, as I wrote earlier, don't have a Floppy Drive. Because of this I really REALL wanted/needed to get ASUS Update working. However, it didn't look like that was going to happen. While going thru Asus' site, I clicked on a link to the "Update BIOS Process" by accident. I think that's what it was called, not sure. I'd post a link but I don't have one and as it was I stumbled upon it by accident. I'm sure with a little searching it can be found again if needed. Anyway, it listed the process for updating your BIOS with a Floppy Disk. Seeing that, I was about to go to another page when I saw in red letters "EZ Flash". I read that and it turns out that this "EZ Flash" is built in to my motherboard (P4C800 Deluxe). Maybe it's built in to all Asus boards I dunno. But it said to hit Alt + F2 at POST to engage EZ Flash. It said once engaged, it would first check the A Drive for anything with a ".ROM" extension. If it found nothing, it would then check the CD Drive. HA! Just to see if it would work, I restarted and hit Alt+F2. Sure enough, it checked the A Drive (Tried to actually, since I don't have one. It just acted like it couldn't find the file, the fact that I didn't actually have a Floppy drive didn't matter), then the CD Drive. It even said that it "could not find p4c800.rom". That's important becasue when I read that, it reminded me that I read somewhere (again i'm sorry I don't have a link, but I did read it on Asus' site) that, for my mainboard anyway, when I d/l a BIOS update I need to rename it. So I thought, well it checks the CD after the Floppy. I don't have a floppy but I do have a CD Drive and a CDR Drive. HAHA! So I d/l the latest BIOS, which if I remember correctly was called "p4c81019.rom". I renamed it to "p4c800.rom". I then burned it to a CDR and placed the burned copy in my primary CD Drive. I then restarted and hit Alt+F2 (just like you would hit del to enter BIOS). It checked the floppy (or tried to since I don't have one), then it checked the CD Drive. It said "BIOS Found!", then "Flashing...", then something like "Flash Successfull". I restarted and WHAM! No more funny beep codes (even after I went in and "personalized" the BIOS). Only 1 beep now, just like it should be. Also, I got to my desktop and everything is as fast and glitch-free as it was before my original CPU died. So, in my case anyway, flashing my BIOS fixed everything. The only thing i'm kickin myself in the head for is that if I had RTFB right at the beginning I probably would've seen the "EZ Flash" reference and I would have had this thing fixed A LOT faster than it took me to. As it stands I was able to find that reference to "EZ Flash" at Asus' site and take it from there. Last edited by Wood$tock; 03-20-2005 at 04:00 AM.