Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
i had explained back about 3-4 pages that you cannot have your DOS file any longer than 8 alpha-numeric characters for your bios file name.

on top of that, my guide clearly stated to download an official Abit bios so you have the runme.bat and abitfae.bat available to flash automatically...i described that you had to rename the bios file name that is in the runme.bat to the current bios you wanted to flash.

the only thing that i did not get into was "how to" flash via an USB thumbdrive...a properly formatted USB drive acts just like floppy disk/drive when you use the HP format tool.

have you successfully flashed with this latest "16" beta bios?
The guide wasnt "clear" in the how to.
It might be to the idea that most people aint used to do flashing from usb and working from bios changes.

I would have said something along these lines:
1. download a format tool (HP/link) to format usb key.(some description needed)
2. set it as "fat" up to 2gb usb keys or fat32 for more than 2gb usb key.
3. download a original bios from abit ex: m630a14.zip, unpack and put in a folder on the usb key.
4. download beta bios 16 put it into the same folder as the original folder on the usb key. (3).
5. rename beta bios (M629B_16AT.rar) after unpacking to a short phrase ex: 16.bin due to flashing wont work with 8 letters or more.
6. Now, open the runme.bat file in the map with the originalbios and beta bios, rename the file in runme.bat to the new bios (beta) "16.bin" since when you flash the bios the runme.bat will now flash the new betabios instead of the original one. (runme.bat is the pointer to the bios awdflash will flash)
7. Adjust the boot up sequence in bios so you can boot with the usb key.
8. reload default settings after flash.(more definition needed)

Did I put this in the right order?
I am used to work with computers but not used to program and work with usb and flashing bios from floppy and so on.
Took a bit of reading to get what was wanted and how to do it.

Now I just wait to get the new board since the flashing usb key is rdy to go.