"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[BeastNotro]

A couple things:

How are you guys flashing your BIOS? I don't have a floppy drive to use and I could never figure out how to make a USB flash drive bootable... all the programs I found to do that said I needed a floppy drive.

Has anyone set up RAId using ICH10R on this board yet? Skimming the manual (before I had to RMA), I saw that I had to use that CD to create a bootable disk for installing the RAID drivers... can I use the USB flash drive to do that as well or am I going to need a floppy? I would nLite slipstream the drivers in there but I want a fresh, clean install.

I use a Kingston Data Traveler 2GB USB stick, just put the BIOS itself onto it (not in a folder either), many USB sticks will do fine, but there is some that won't recognize on bootup ... which ones are they ... well trial and error is all.

Then on bootup HIT ALT + F2 when you see the screen for options at bootup.

When it loads it will show the USB stick and the Bios, then simply update Bios.

No need to create a BOOTABLE USB stick, just make sure it is formatted already to FAT format which 99% of them already are from the factory.

You can't use a floppy anyways as the Bios is 2MB and a Standard Floppy and reader is only 1.44MB.