ASUS website + BIOS fun

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Is it just me or is this website painfully slow for everyone? Takes ages to get anywhere, and most the time it timesout.

Which is a really annoying thing to happen when you are desperatly trying to fix the failed BIOS flash you just did. Had to boot up the PC in the study, and good god is that heap of junk slow. Makes you appreciate dual cores even more. Managed in the end to download the BIOS, get it onto my USB and recover the BIOS.

Although it didn't work the first time, it found my USB stick, but it ignored the ROM file. Noticed it said reading P5WDH.ROM.. but the BIOS file on the USB was called something else (with all the version numbers etc) so I renamed it to P5WDH.ROM and it flashed.

Also the ASUS Update util is crap.
 
Dont i know it (ASUS Update util is crap).Just sent of a mobo to asus after a bad flash with the said util.Be glad you recoved from it no matter what i did support cd /support cd

with bois on usb jumper move cmos reset and stil no post just a black screen.As i have

said before first and last time i flash in windows.I understand it could be a number of things

that make the util mess up and loads of people use it with np at all.But never again for me the risk is to great.
 
Fanatic, glad you got it sorted! :)

Now you may have read about the place that using a windows based BIOS updater is not without its risks, tried it once or twice myself in the past and it all worked ok but now that ASUS have incorparted EZ Flash into the BIOS itself I see no reason to even think about using a Windows based app.

[edit] Often wondered why the ASUS website and downloads seems so slow? however it all works well very late at night. I suspect the company is so popular that the poor webserver is straining under the network traffic? :D
 
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that's one of the prerequisites of being a motherboard or chipset manufacturer, host all your sites in taiwan, even the 'uk' ones

limit the website to 1kb/s for each user


then start building your motherboards and never keep all your sites updated with the same information :D
 
I bought my first Asus board back in 1999. Just returned to them with a Rampage Formula and i couldn't believe their website is still as slow as it was back then!
I would've thought a company the size of Asus would've fixed it by now.
 
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