bios

awhir

hi i just bought the machine from hell and was wondering if i could change my bois to asus at the moment is some ***** siemens one but i do not have a floppy drive but only have 2x dvd drives,card reader and usb.i was thinking that i would be able to flash it using a usb flash card or a memory stick.

seamus

Short answer no. A BIOS is more-or-less written (adapted eally) for your brand/model of motherboard. You couldn't just slap an Asus BIOS onto another manufacturer's board, it would stop working altogether.

What problems are you having?

awhir

yes but it is a asus AN8-sli board

angelofdeath

well make sure it's one of these files http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=A8N-SLI&type=BIOS&SLanguage=en-us as for updating the bios, with my asus board, i installed a program off the motherboard driver disc that updates the bios from a file on the harddrive, even if you don't have that i'm sure you can use a usb key or cd

awhir

sorry which one should i use the link is here and only have the 32bitxp

mp3guy

you're not making any sense whatsoever

Soundman

Can you not Flash the BIOS with Asus in the same way you can with Dell? ie: Download the new version of the BIOS (Flash executable), make sure battery and AC power are connected and then double click the application to launch it. No need for boot disks or any messy malarky.

angelofdeath

this one first, then this one

use the asus bios update utility (if installed, should be) in c:/program files/asus
to update the bios

Drapper

simple, get this !!

http://www.asus.de/support/bios/liveupdate.htm

sorry could not find the english version, but flashes smart and simple

are you a bot?

awhir

no