A8N-SLI, need help flashing bios

Dfran · Posted: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:26:12 Post Subject: A8N-SLI, need help flashing bios

Everything is brand new, just powered up for the first time with only floppy and gpu on mobo. I put the new bios and flash tool on a dos-startup formatted disk. I read where I need to select "Load Setup Default" then re-boot with disk in, but nothing happens it doesn't boot from the floppy, it just goes back into the bios. What else should I be doing?

Shadowsilence · Posted: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:49:39 Post Subject:

I personally don't like flashing the bios from a floppy anymore. Asus has excellent software to update your bios from within windows. I find it alot easier, and safer.

Dfran · Posted: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:26:29 Post Subject:

I have no OS yet and an unformatted HDD, all new.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:53:48 Post Subject:

The original bios will work find until you put an OS and format the hard drive. No sense flashing the bios a more risky and difficult way.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

The main issue you'll probably find until you flash the bios, is that when you go to do a restart you might have to actually power the machine off instead of a restart. At least that's the issue I encountered on this MB.

Oh yea, ASUS and any software benchmark tool has been misreporting the RAM voltage, although the BIOS reports it correctly.

Dfran · Posted: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:51:17 Post Subject:

OK, so I RMA'd my floppy because it seems to be faulty. Without that how do I format my WD HDD so I can put windows on it and then do the Asus ez-flash?

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

boot from a CD. You can do that now. Modern technology continues to improve.

Edit: No fair Jim! You posted when my boss was asking me about robocopy. Mad

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Dfran · Posted: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:05:38 Post Subject: