P5B motherboard query

Fatmonkey72 · 4 Apr 2008 at 13:23

Asus P5B motherboard query

Hi all,

I'm planning to upgrade to vista 64bit adding in:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA-II 16MB

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)

My mobo is the Asus P5B deluxe BIOS revision 1004. My query is this - are there any problems or limitations I might encounter which would require me to upgrade the bios to a later version? I currently do not possess a floppy & am not keen on using the Asus windows update program,

thanks!

rxmac · 4 Apr 2008 at 18:08

I have several P5B's in various guises and i have upgraded the bios on them all several times with the windows bios utility with no problems at all, personally i would much rather do it this way than via a floppy / memory stick.

steve258 · 4 Apr 2008 at 18:17

Nope it will work without the need to update BIOS.

On a different note: does anyone know how to flash the bios to an earlier version?

inam22 · 5 Apr 2008 at 02:38

steve258 said:
Nope it will work without the need to update BIOS.

On a different note: does anyone know how to flash the bios to an earlier version?

download aufdos.exe(2.11ver)copy into your flash drive with your bios what ever version you want to downgrade and then boot into ms-dos and write this:for example your flashdrive is E:/aufdos /i(bios filename) and enter and there is no space between /i and bios filename.

inam22 · 5 Apr 2008 at 02:47

Fatmonkey72 said:
Hi all,

I'm planning to upgrade to vista 64bit adding in:

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA-II 16MB

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)

My mobo is the Asus P5B deluxe BIOS revision 1004. My query is this - are there any problems or limitations I might encounter which would require me to upgrade the bios to a later version? I currently do not possess a floppy & am not keen on using the Asus windows update program,

thanks!

the process i mentioned above you don't need floppy drive and you don't need aufdos.exe version 2.11 you can copy lastest aufdos.exe from asus website but you don't have to upgrade your bios just to install vista you should be fine with your current bios.

There are couple of other ways aswell if you got flash drive and you can upgrade your bios without having floppy drive.

steve258 · 6 Apr 2008 at 00:20

inam22 said:
download aufdos.exe(2.11ver)copy into your flash drive with your bios what ever version you want to downgrade and then boot into ms-dos and write this:for example your flashdrive is E:/aufdos /i(bios filename) and enter and there is no space between /i and bios filename.

Just tried it, all it says is the BIOS version is too old and won't flash

Am using the latest afudos though (2.32) does it have to be the 2.11 version?

*EDIT* sorry nvm just googled