9/18/2007
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:
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).
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[...] I can’t upgrade the BIOS. It comes with a Windows BIOS upgrade utility, but that doesn’t work because Asus misidentified the board name so the program refuses to overwrite the BIOS for one board with the BIOS for another board - even though it is the correct BIOS (it’s just that the old BIOS was named incorrectly). There are two other options for upgrading the BIOS - from the BIOS itself or from DOS, but both require using a floppy. The unit however has no floppy drive or even a floppy controller for that matter, so I need to get my hands on a USB floppy drive and hope that it can detect and use that. <b>Update: I have figured out how to update the BIOS, as described here</b>. [...]