Asus S-presso BIOS upgrade 1008.003

On my Asus S-presso I’ve got suspend to disk working but not suspend to RAM.

In an effort to get s2ram working, I upgraded the BIOS to version 1008.003.

Last time, I upgraded the BIOS, I used the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and HP’s boot files (both of which I found in a post on aaltonen.us) to format my SanDisk Cruzer Mini as a DOS-bootable disk.

This time, the links seemed to be broken, but I managed to find them in other spots, so I made my own copies:

• HPUSBFW_BOOTFILES.zip

• SP27213.exe

I used these to boot off an SD card into DOS and then used Asus’s afudos utility to backup the current BIOS and upgrade to the new version:

afudos /i1008.003 /o1007.002

Unfortunately it didn’t help a lick with s2ram.

By the way, nice work, Asus:

$ sudo s2ram
Machine is unknown.
This machine can be identified by:
sys_vendor   = "To Be Filled By O.E.M. by More String"
sys_product  = "To Be Filled By O.E.M."
sys_version  = "To Be Filled By O.E.M."
bios_version = "1008.003"

"To Be Filled By O.E.M." — ha ha. Oops.

(sudo s2ram -f doesn’t work either — it sort of looks like it’s suspending and then it immediately wakes up).