ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[nrs250]

I have a question about the BIOS flash utility:

1) I used a Win98 boot disk on a USB floppy (set BIOS up right to boot from it) and then inserted a second floppy with AFUDOS 2.11 on it (second floppy be so I made sure room was not an issue). I was able to type:

AFUDOS /oOLDBIOS1.rom

as per page 4-6 in the manual and it worked as expected.

Next:

I tried using a USB stick formatted in WinXP as an MSDOS boot disk (not the 98 version I describe above), I then put AFUDOS on it and repeated the procedure. It would not work. The USB key was a Sandisk 2GB U3 key. No go. I kept getting drive "write errors" on the AFUDOS /oOLDBIOS1.rom command after the flash was read. It seems to have an issue writing to the USB stick.

I even used this to prep the key and used Sandisk's U3 uninstall utility to make sure the key is clean and free of the U3 crap that Sandisk loads on it.

Can anyone tell me how you went about
1) getting a USB key to work with AFUDOS
2) what key did you use (if it even matters)
3) how you prepped or formatted the key.
4) what Windows boot disk you used (98, XP etc)

I will save the rant that we have a damn QUAD CORE processor and we are using 1990 floppies to flash mobos in 2007.