P5K-Deluxe how to flash BIOS

External Since: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 3

I've been trying to flash the BIOS using the EZ-Flash inbuilt program
but I have a problem that it wont recognise my 1Gb flash drive (actually
its an MP3 player but is recognised just like a flash drive).

If I set it to be emulated as "floppy" or "forced FDD" then when I start
EZ-Flash the screen flashes about a dozen times and then a message
saying ti cant read the drive (only A: (real floppy drive) and B:
(emulated drive) are shown.

If I set emulation to hard disk then the screen flashes continuosly in
EZ-Flash (dont know for how long as I gave up after 2 minutes).

Any other emulation setting (CD or Auto) just results in no drive being
detected by EZ-Flash.

I would normally use a floppy disk but seing as the rom images for this
board are 2MB each I cant with this motherboard.

Im am loath to try the windows flasher as I know how often this program
fails and "bricks" motherboards.

I've tried the drive flashed as both FAT and as FAT32 but it makes no
difference.

Any ideas?

External Since: Jan 28, 2006 Posts: 88

I have had good luck booting off CD to NTFS4DOS and running DOS files on
hard drive. NTFS4DOS is on Hiren's Boot CD often found on
alt.binaries.warez. Flashing from floppy disk is dangerous as floppies can
have corrupt files and my ruin flash.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_90_11100.html I made a bootable
NTFS4DOS CD from floppy version using Nero