Quote Originally Posted by some_one View Post
Sure, re-reading 2. I can see how it would be confusing. Appeared to make sense at the time.

Well it seems currently there is a loophole with BUPDATER 1.22 in that if you replace the older GUID 77840A38-8AB1-4D7A-9181-3B2F5B34C0B module in the older flash firmware with the newer GUID 77840A38-8AB1-4D7A-9181-3B2F5B34C0B module found in the newer flash firmware then BUPDATER is happy to flash the older modified firmware believing it is the newer hardware version. Once that is done it seems EzFlash can be used to update from 0303 to 1253 or say you flashed a modified 1053 BIOS then it could be replaced by the original 1053. Luckily the module sizes are the same (at least for P8P67 EVO), about 2 blocks worth, so it makes the job fairly easy.

I wouldn't say it's recommended but since I also have an external flasher I can recover any fubars. Unfortunately though the external flasher runs of a parallel port and it takes ~2hours to flash the 32Mb Asus BIOS. IMHO it would be best if Asus provided/documented a force flash function so all of this wouldn't be necessary.

I find it strange Asus didn't update the hardware version for the Deluxe BIOS versions so rolling back for them is np. Maybe one of the Asus reps would be kind enough to explain why it's like that.
I know I'm getting in over my head but, what software do you use to mod the BIOS file? (I do write code for a living....for CNC machines.) I'm more of a mechanical person but, my employer also employs many electrical engineers. I'm sure we have something at work that could flash the chip if needed. What is the proper/technical name of the device used for flashing the chip? (so I can correctly word the question to the engineers )

This is all regarding the Pro version of the board. Is this the chip, just above the sata ports:


Pic clipped from the hi-res image available through here.

Thanks.

Sorry for cluttering up the thread. Maybe ASUS will take the hint and provide a fix/workaround for us.