<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7G+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.orgca">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:18:43PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:<br>
> Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms, but I can't find anything on<br>
> updating an Asus mobo BIOS from Linux. On the Asus site, they did have Linux<br>
> listed in the menu for update files, but when I download the BIOS update<br>
> from their link, it is an MS executable file. None of my machines have a<br>
> floppy drive, so I can't boot from an MSDOS disk, even if I had one. How do<br>
> people normally handle this?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Most ASUS boards made in the last 10 or so years can flash themselves<br>
from USB. Hit alt+F2 at the bios and it will boot a bios flasher.<br>
Some can even flash from CD.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I just found this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2V/">http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2V/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Quote:</div><div><br></div><div>With ASUS EZ Flash, you can update BIOS directly from the BIOS setup menu. No more DOS-based flash utility and bootable diskette required.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I can find nothing in the BIOS menu when I boot and hit Del or F2, and again hitting alt+f2 just kills the display, I get 'no signal' from the monitor.</div>
<div> </div></div>-- <br><div>Thomas Milne</div><br>