OT: Asus windows based bios update?

I thought I had a copy of a utility that updated Asustek motherboards via windows. I used it once on my system and it worked great. I'm getting ready to update another box and that mb needs a bios update to accept a newer cpu. but for the life of me I can't find that utility on my system or online. I 'think' it was on a a German Asus-site but thats all I can remember. Anyone have an idea or AM I having more false memories?? dave henrie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.431 / Virus Database: 242 - Release Date: 12/17/02

Dave Henrie wrote:

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> > I thought I had a copy of a utility that updated Asustek motherboards via > windows. I used it once on my system and it worked great. I'm getting > ready to update another box and that mb needs a bios update to accept a > newer cpu. but for the life of me I can't find that utility on my system or > online. I 'think' it was on a a German Asus-site but thats all I can > remember. > Anyone have an idea or AM I having more false memories?? > dave henrie

I think it's called "liveupdate" or some such Dave, but I'm only guessing...:-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

http://www.asuscom.de/support/techmain/bios/liveupdate.htm This is what your after, although it is alot safer to update your bios through dos with aflash. Good luck. Sid. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:z%9O9.299482$pN3.23178@sccrnsc03... > I thought I had a copy of a utility that updated Asustek motherboardsvia > windows. I used it once on my system and it worked great. I'm getting > ready to update another box and that mb needs a bios update to accept a > newer cpu. but for the life of me I can't find that utility on my systemor

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> online. I 'think' it was on a a German Asus-site but thats all I can > remember. > Anyone have an idea or AM I having more false memories?? > dave henrie > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.431 / Virus Database: 242 - Release Date: 12/17/02 > >

It's called ASUS Update The cuurent one I've got is asusupdt3.41.04.zip just do a search on the asus site Seems to work quite well with my Asus p4t533 although it's updated itself rather more than it's updated the bios! Some Call Me Tim

"The Real Thing" <: > > >It's called ASUS Update The cuurent one I've got is asusupdt3.41.04.zipjust

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> >do a search on the asus site > > > >Seems to work quite well with my Asus p4t533 although it's updated itself > >rather more than it's updated the bios! > > > >Some Call Me Tim > > > >

I saw that Easy flash feature, but my A7A266 must be too old. It didn't do anything. Good news and Bad news about the flash. I found the utility I was looking for. I had it all along on the Asus CD. Tried the update...seemed to go well but we got a checksum error when the system rebooted. (this is my son's box.) Now the bad news. The system seemed to start booting, but windows wouldn't load. No problem I thought. I'll get the dos flasher and copy it from my system to my son's. except...a friend of his spilled a coke into that box a year ago and my son has never replaced the floppy drive. I had a dead corparate system in the junk room so I yanked the drive out of that, stuffed it into my son's system and tried the dos flasher. This too went well, no checksum error this time, but windows still wouldn't completely boot. Hanging after the splash screen. So I re-installed windows. Usually when I do this it takes days to properly sort things out. My netcards take forever to properly reconfigure, the windows setup always complains about a previous version already installed...but this time(GOOD NEWS SECTION) the setup breezed through, all the previous settings remained, and windows loaded like a champ. End of story, but Christmas afternoon wasted. I still had to risk blowing up the AMD cpu when I installed it. but that too went ok. So all the flashing is done and both systems seem to have survived. Now to finish the stuff I planned to do yesterday. dave henrie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 12/25/02

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> > > > Don't you have Asus EZ Flash on your P4T533? My P4B533 does so you > should too. This allows you to boot to a dos environment by pressing > alt+F2 on boot up and flash from there without having to use Aflash. > This is how I do it as I don't trust live update because if you got a > disconnect while flashing it could make your PC unusable.

Yeah it does that but there's not much point as ASUS update works so easily (well it has done so far) Some Call Me Tim