last night i went to flash my bios for the first time and the directions from the asus site said to copy the files to the c drive from the dos prompt. My hard drive is formatted ntfs so i can not see it in dos... can i just flash the bios from the floppy? Or is there another way to see the hard drive? Thanks for the help!
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ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe BIOS flash help?
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I am very curious about this because I happen to run Raid0 on the SATA connections, so I cannot see my drives at all when booting from a dos disk.
I am very curious about this because I happen to run Raid0 on the SATA connections, so I cannot see my drives at all when booting from a dos disk.
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you boot from the floppy for award flash.
if you go the ez-bios flash
you load the bin file to a floppy then reboot hit control+f2 --then on the prompt put the floppy in
with award flash you have to have a formatted floppy and re-boot of the floppy
then after the prompt type award flash-- then it will ask for a filename.
usually the filename is changed to a8n-sli.bin (your origional filename will ne a number like 1012-002beta) then on the prompt type a8n-sli.bin--saye yes or no --no then it will flash --
remove the floppy and re-boot --check the a8n-sli deluxe user guide--it's all in there.
i would aviod useing the ez-update through--i have had some problems with it.
but the other two methods seem to do a good job.
if you go the ez-bios flash
you load the bin file to a floppy then reboot hit control+f2 --then on the prompt put the floppy in
with award flash you have to have a formatted floppy and re-boot of the floppy
then after the prompt type award flash-- then it will ask for a filename.
usually the filename is changed to a8n-sli.bin (your origional filename will ne a number like 1012-002beta) then on the prompt type a8n-sli.bin--saye yes or no --no then it will flash --
remove the floppy and re-boot --check the a8n-sli deluxe user guide--it's all in there.
i would aviod useing the ez-update through--i have had some problems with it.
but the other two methods seem to do a good job.
Download the 1008 BIOS and BIOS flash tool here: http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A8N-SLI Deluxe&Type=Latest
- Download the BIOS and flash tool under the BIOS section of above mentioned URL.
- In Windows XP go to the floppy drive
- Format with using the option to create a MSDOS startup disk
- Once the disk is created unpack the 1008 BIOS and flash tool to the floppy
- Reboot
- Hit del once the system displays the boot screen
- Go to Exit menu and select Load Setup Default
- Then Exit & Save Changes
- After the reboot the system will boot off the floppy
- Type awdflash 1008.bin to start the BIOS update
- Select No to save BIOS and Yes to update BIOS
- Once completed press F1 to reset the system
- Power the system off and unplug the power supply from the mains
- Download the BIOS and flash tool under the BIOS section of above mentioned URL.
- In Windows XP go to the floppy drive
- Format with using the option to create a MSDOS startup disk
- Once the disk is created unpack the 1008 BIOS and flash tool to the floppy
- Reboot
- Hit del once the system displays the boot screen
- Go to Exit menu and select Load Setup Default
- Then Exit & Save Changes
- After the reboot the system will boot off the floppy
- Type awdflash 1008.bin to start the BIOS update
- Select No to save BIOS and Yes to update BIOS
- Once completed press F1 to reset the system
- Power the system off and unplug the power supply from the mains