p5k dlx dlx BIOS EDIT Help!!!

[xgman]

Anyone who knows how to edit a bios to make it look like a newer date? We have a problem over here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=144199&page=67

A bad asus bios (0703) for the P5K dlx, won't let us go back to an older bios and we are stuck. If the older bios 063 could be re-coded to make it thin it was of a date later than 0703, it would take the back flash. By the way we have tried all the tricks incl. afudos strings etc but it will not accept an older bios period. Thanks.

[Warboy]

Your spelling is really bad, but If you look in the maximus thread, there is already a better way to do it then a bios date edit.

[xgman]

I was typing on a Mac. ;)

[hstuehmeyer2000]

if that board uses a award bios(which i think it does), get this utility, http://www.lejabeach.com/ASUS/Striker/AWDFLASH119.zip , and make a bootable floppy, then put the award flasher and the bios you want to flash on a bootable floppy disk, then boot to the floppy drive, then run the command, awdflash bios.bin /f ,bios.bin should be what ever the name of you bios file is, the /f switch forces the flasher to flash no matter what board the bios is for, so make sure you have the right bios

[xenolith]

The BIOS rom file is too big to fit on a floppy.

Here's something that may work, xgman:

While in the middle of flashing 0703, hit the power or reset switch. It'll obviously corrupt the BIOS. With w/0603 on a USB drive inserted, boot using the supplied support DVD. CrashFree should now find 0603 and flash the corrupt BIOS.

This won't void your warranty, but as always, whenever you do something like this, you do it at your own risk.

[Warboy]

The BIOS rom file is too big to fit on a floppy.

Here's something that may work, xgman:

While in the middle of flashing 0703, hit the power or reset switch. It'll obviously corrupt the BIOS. With w/0603 on a USB drive inserted, boot using the supplied support DVD. CrashFree should now find 0603 and flash the corrupt BIOS.

This won't void your warranty, but as always, whenever you do something like this, you do it at your own risk.

ffs, Just use ASUS update and Flash the bios that way.

[xenolith]

ffs, Just use ASUS update and Flash the bios that way.

I thought the bugged beta (0703) won't let him go back to 0603? Hence corrupting the BIOS to allow CrashFree to fix it.

[hstuehmeyer2000]

The BIOS rom file is too big to fit on a floppy.

Here's something that may work, xgman:

While in the middle of flashing 0703, hit the power or reset switch. It'll obviously corrupt the BIOS. With w/0603 on a USB drive inserted, boot using the supplied support DVD. CrashFree should now find 0603 and flash the corrupt BIOS.

This won't void your warranty, but as always, whenever you do something like this, you do it at your own risk.

if its to big to fit on a floppy, make a bootable flash drive

[xgman]

The BIOS rom file is too big to fit on a floppy.

Here's something that may work, xgman:

While in the middle of flashing 0703, hit the power or reset switch. It'll obviously corrupt the BIOS. With w/0603 on a USB drive inserted, boot using the supplied support DVD. CrashFree should now find 0603 and flash the corrupt BIOS.

This won't void your warranty, but as always, whenever you do something like this, you do it at your own risk.


Yes, I finally thought of that and did it (interupted a 0703 flash to force crashfree to kick in, burned the 0603 to a cd which crash free found and flashed). Only problem is that afterwards, if I changed almost anything from the checksum bios settings, saved, then rebooted, the board would no longer post. It was like something was now corrupted in the board relating to the old bios. So I finally flashed back to 0703 and then the computer runs like normal, exept for the 703 caused usb & wifi corruption thing. I'm having a hard time understanding why 0603 will no longer work as it had previously. I'm hoping asus will fix this quickly and that 0703 didn't permanently damage the board. I also tried to re-flash the board with 0603 after doing the crashfree restore to 0603, just to be sure it was re-flashed fully and I got the dreaded "this bios is older" even though it was the same bios. What a mess. I wish I could buy an X48 and just ditch it at this point.


EDIT: AWESOME!!! (maybe) I see Asus Posted 0705 update today. I'll try it when I get home. (fingers crossed)