Today I received my new hardware, including an Asus barebone V2-M2V890. Unfortunately, the BIOS complains about a non-recognized revision of the proc (AMD X2). It causes a failure to boot properly, and I have to acknowledge it every time. Fortunately, Debian Etch for 64 bit installed perfectly... Asus has a "EZ-Flash" utility, no longer requiring booting into Windoze to update the BIOS. Which is a good thing, as I don't have that garbage anymore... In the manual Asus states that it requires a ROM file on a floppy, but on this mobo it's looking for this file on a CD. Oh well, put the ROM file on a rewritable CD and have a go. It can find the file on the CD but then complains that it cannot find the file! For some reason the file is unreadable and I noticed that k3b reports it as a JPEG image. I already set the permissions to 777 as it failed to recognize on anything less.

Basically, after trying for more then 12 hours I'm stuck. Anyone any ideas?

I've flashed several (older) ASUS - from CD, floppy and from a Web browser. Only time I can recall a problem was when I downloaded a file, and the version of the CD I was using wouldn't accept the name of the file as input. I think I had to rename it.

Now I think about it, I'm pretty sure I had it on a floppy - maybe even had to create a boot floppy for it. You can (or could) download the flash utility as well. In my case I might have even had to go find a floppy drive ...

Thanks, but my problem persists. I've contacted Asus, I'll see what they can come up with. Too bad it's weekend, I'll have to wait 'till Monday at the earliest

Could of buy BIOS chip from ASUS that has the update version. When you remove the chip, note which way the chip was orientated. Of course, you need to make sure there is no stand-by current flowing through, so this means completely disconnect the computer from the outlet.

Optical discs permission is read, so setting the permissions to 777 will not do anything. Make sure you follow the instructions carefully such as the name of the file that it is looking for.

I prefer the DOS or FreeDOS way of updating the BIOS.

Thanks, I'll have a Google on updating BIOSes with Freedos.

Go look at bootdisk.com - has all you need.

I already did. Maybe the floppy drive I used is too old, afterall it came from the same P-II I took the CD drive from ;-) Thanks for the hint anyway!