http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2007/09/18/asus-s-presso-bios-upgrade-1008003/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:55:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2007/09/18/asus-s-presso-bios-upgrade-1008003/comment-page-1/#comment-280550 Marc Abramowitz » My Asus S-presso Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:33:57 +0000 http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2007/09/18/asus-s-presso-bios-upgrade-1008003/#comment-280550 <p>[...] 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>. [...]</p> [...] 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>. [...]

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