HELP!!!!!! ASUS Bios problems

[PoppyLlama]

OK, so I just finished a custom build: ASUS Maximus Extreme, Intel Q9450 @ stock, 2GB of OCZ DDR3 1333 RAM, 9800GTX, WD250GB HDD, and OCZ 750watt PSU.
SO! now the problem :(

Whenever I power on the system, everything works fine, UNTIL the system says that there the CPU is unrecognizable and that I need a BIOS update, I currently have v0905. So then it says press F1 to continue to the BIOS setup, so i press that, and everything is 100% normal, recognizes everything, nothing weird going on. So, to boil this down to the questions...

1) I've tried flashing the BIOS, but for some reason I cannot succeed, I will look for more tuts tonight though.

2) does anybody have ANY idea whats going on?

[Waymon3X6]

Can you explain your problem a little more in depth? What do you mean you cannot succeed? What messages show?

[PoppyLlama]

okey dokey, so heres the details my friend.

Step1:

power on, everything works,

Step2: recognizes all the components, including the CPU

Step3: goes to a new screen saying: "detecting drives done, no any drives found" (no theres no typo here)

Step4: goes back to the previous screen saying: "unknown CPU is detected--requires BIOS update to unleash full power
press F1 to resume setup"

Step5a: If I press F1 I go back to the BIOS, when in the BIOS, everything is normal, it recognizes all components in the system.

Step5b: If I DON'T press F1, after roughly 30-45 seconds I go to a screen saying:

"Welcome to ASUS Motherboard make disk for DOS menu

1)Make Intel ICH9R 32bit RAID/AHCI Driver Disk
2)Make Intel ICH9R 64bit RAID/AHCI Driver Disk
3)Make JMicron ICH9R 32bit RAID/AHCI Driver Disk
4)Make JMicron ICH9R 64bit RAID/AHCI Driver Disk
5)FreeDOS command prompt

Choose 1~5:"

I dont know what to do, I also will add that I do NOT have a floppy disk drive in my computer.

UPDATING THE BIOS


If I follow the steps I listed out for you to Step5, and then press F1 to go back to the BIOS, I have the option to use the "ASUS EZ FLASH 2" When I select this option, it takes me to the EZ FLASH screen, I have the option to install the BIOS update from there, my only choice seems to be from a flash drive, because as I said earlier I do not have a floppy disk drive. I downloaded the BIOS updates from the ASUS support site (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us) onto my flash drive, but when I plus the flash drive in and go into the ez flash I cannot install the files, as they do not show up as being on the drive, I am presuming this is due to the fact that they are .zip files in compressed folders, but...:rolleyes: I dont know how to change that, OR what file type they should be in...

Sorry if that was TMI, but I wasn't sure how descriptive to get so I just put it all out in one post instead of making yall piece together 10 different ones :)

[Waymon3X6]

Ahh, well you need to format your USB key so that it is bootable. The USB Storage Format tool can do that.

You can get the tool here: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/downloads/index.cfm?categoryid=1504&itemId=64963

Heres a guide on formatting it: http://www.gamebeat.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1057

Put the bios file on there and try it out - get back to me with results.

[Lloyd]

Ahh, well you need to format your USB key so that it is bootable. The USB Storage Format tool can do that.

You can get the tool here: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/downloads/index.cfm?categoryid=1504&itemId=64963

Heres a guide on formatting it: http://www.gamebeat.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1057

Put the bios file on there and try it out - get back to me with results.


no you don't - with ezflash2 you can just put the .bin/rom file on a stick and plug it in
Make sure to rename the .bin file to 1007.bin/rom for example. I do that and just put the file on an empty USB stick and go to EZFlash, and bob's your uncle

Though a friend had the same issue with an old nforce4 board (AMD) where the CPU wasn't supported on that BIOS so he ended up having to borrow a compatable chip from me to flash the BIOS, i'm not sure if that's applicable these days

[Lloyd]

I knew i forgot to add something to my guide - the extraction D'Oh

[PoppyLlama]

WOW thank you everyone, I was able to flash the BIOS with my flash drive, every thing is working good now. I just ordered windows XP pro so after I install that we'll see how far I can OC it ;)