Help with flashing mob

psychas · 27 Feb 2009 at 15:45

i know what to do as instructed here : http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?root=198&SLanguage=en-us

, but it gives me only path options C , and A but does not give me, flash drives option E and cd~roms path D ?

Big.Wayne · 27 Feb 2009 at 17:32

Hey psychas,

That page isn't loading for me :confused:

Are you flashing using ASUS EZ Flash 2

i.e flashing from a USB memory stick from inside the BIOS?

psychas · 27 Feb 2009 at 18:12

^^ thats not mine but yes im using asus ez flash 2. if u see above in the picture it finds A,C,D,E paths .

For me it finds only A and C. :confused:

(yes im using usb drive) so i cant flash it as it does not find my E drive/path(usb drive).

Now i dont know why it can not find it so im asking u what can i do about it or am i doing something wrong here

Big.Wayne · 27 Feb 2009 at 18:19

I think the system needs to be powered off for the USB flash drive to be detected properly, at least it does that sometimes. So power off, plug in USB stick, power up and it should be fine.

My Flash drive defaults to A:\ in that menu as I have my floppy disabled, have you tried switching through all the drives listed?

cuke2u · 27 Feb 2009 at 21:03

psychas said:
i know what to do as instructed here : http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?root=198&SLanguage=en-us

, but it gives me only path options C , and A but does not give me, flash drives option E and cd~roms path D ?

Hi, 'C' is fine as the bios flashing tool can't see any NTFS drives anyway. As you can see by this picture:

of my PC.
Chris

psychas · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:08

well tried disabling floppy still no luck. i would do it trough C path but when i press on it it says loading directory and then nothing comes up. were do u have to actually place your ROM in C ?

cuke2u · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:44

Hi, mine was placed inside a directory, but you can have it in the root. Are you sure the file is unzipped and has the correct name?
Chris

psychas · 28 Feb 2009 at 14:06

aye its unzipped " MAXIMUS-ASUS-Formula-1207.ROM "

cuke2u · 28 Feb 2009 at 14:28

Hi again, and is the drive formatted as FAT?
Chris

psychas · 28 Feb 2009 at 15:21

aye it was fat but it reminded me that it only reads fat 32/16 so it working perfectly now bios updated cheers chris

cuke2u · 28 Feb 2009 at 16:56

Hi, great stuff, glad you got it to work...
Chris

sev · 2 Mar 2009 at 18:23

Big.Wayne said:
I think the system needs to be powered off for the USB flash drive to be detected properly, at least it does that sometimes. So power off, plug in USB stick, power up and it should be fine.

My Flash drive defaults to A:\ in that menu as I have my floppy disabled, have you tried switching through all the drives listed?

by power off do you mean actually remove powerlead so no power to board, or just shutdown so there is still power to the board?

Big.Wayne · 2 Mar 2009 at 20:20

Just shut down (as in soft-off). I've only had to do this once as normally the BIOS see's the flash drive but machine may require a restart!

jimmybates · 2 Mar 2009 at 22:48

God i'm terrified of bios updates, the only time i tried was with an asus board, it seemed to go through fine, but the motherboard wouldnt let the computer boot again ever afterwards...:S

Big.Wayne · 2 Mar 2009 at 23:59

Yeah I guess a BIOS update is the one thing that can b0rk a good motherboard, for the most part the ASUS EZ-Flash 2 feature makes the whole process quite easy!