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**Bartender** · 11-23-2005, 08:27 PM

Good day -
You guys helped me out a few months ago when I needed some guidance flashing the BIOS for my P5GDC-V. With the P5GDC-V I ended up using ASUS EZ FLash. It worked great. Now I'm back with more dumb BIOS flash questions. This time my problem child is a P3V4X, an older motherboard that apparently offers fewer methods for flashing.
A friend gave me this computer, with BIOS rev. 1004 on it. I want to turn it into an Ubuntu Linux testbed. Before installing Ubuntu I'd really like to flash the BIOS to the latest version, 1006.04 according to the ASUS website. I downloaded 1006.04, the latest version of ASUSFLASH, and the manual from the same download page.
That's where the problems start. Apparently nobody's looked at the manual for a few years because it talks about using ONE floppy to make a boot disc. My P5GDC-V manual says four for W2K.
I don't know how to get to the DOS prompt (ASUS and the Windows help files don't say) so I loaded W2K to this machine just so I could run thru the boot disc procedure. Two problems - one, there's not enuf room on the fourth floppy for the 1006.04 BIOS & ASUSFLASH, and two, it didn't matter cause the computer started loading W2K as soon as it went thru the four floppies anyway.
So, how the heckfire do I flash the BIOS? I know this is much easier than I'm making it out to be, so will someone please tell me what I'm missing?
Thanks very much!

11-23-2005, 08:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	P3V4X BIOS flash - how to do it?? Good day - You guys helped me out a few months ago when I needed some guidance flashing the BIOS for my P5GDC-V. With the P5GDC-V I ended up using ASUS EZ FLash. It worked great. Now I'm back with more dumb BIOS flash questions. This time my problem child is a P3V4X, an older motherboard that apparently offers fewer methods for flashing. A friend gave me this computer, with BIOS rev. 1004 on it. I want to turn it into an Ubuntu Linux testbed. Before installing Ubuntu I'd really like to flash the BIOS to the latest version, 1006.04 according to the ASUS website. I downloaded 1006.04, the latest version of ASUSFLASH, and the manual from the same download page. That's where the problems start. Apparently nobody's looked at the manual for a few years because it talks about using ONE floppy to make a boot disc. My P5GDC-V manual says four for W2K. I don't know how to get to the DOS prompt (ASUS and the Windows help files don't say) so I loaded W2K to this machine just so I could run thru the boot disc procedure. Two problems - one, there's not enuf room on the fourth floppy for the 1006.04 BIOS & ASUSFLASH, and two, it didn't matter cause the computer started loading W2K as soon as it went thru the four floppies anyway. So, how the heckfire do I flash the BIOS? I know this is much easier than I'm making it out to be, so will someone please tell me what I'm missing? Thanks very much!