How To Update ASUS Motherboard (BUPDATER)
For those who doesn’t know how to update their Bios outside ‘Windows’ environment, then take a look at this tutorial. However, please bear in mind that your motherboard MUST have ‘EZ Flash 2’ for this task. If you don’t have it, then please STOP reading and look for alternatives.
1.] Direct yourself to ASUS website (Homepage & Support) and download the correct ‘Bios Revision’ for your motherboard. Also, please don’t forget to download the latest ‘BUPDATER’ for this procedure.
UK Region: http://uk.asus.com/
US Region: http://usa.asus.com/
2.] Get yourself a USB flash drive and format it. However, the format must be set to ‘FAT32 / FAT16’ and nothing else!
Notes: if your motherboard doesn’t support ‘built-in DOS’, then take a look at this PAGE. It has “Win98Boot” files and USB Format Tools. But, the rest is for you to create a bootable DOS with a USB drive.
3.] Create a new folder: BIOS (All Capital) inside your formatted USB flash drive. After that, you must extract (unzip) your Bios file and drop them inside that folder. If the unzipped BIOS file was named like: ‘Maximus-IV-Extreme-Z-ASUS-0403.ROM’, then you will need to shorten it: ‘MAXV0403.ROM’ (8 Characters).
Notes: due to a limitation, the program (BUPDATER) can only recognize 8 character / digits. Therefore, please rename / shorten your file for the initial update.
4.] Leave your USB drive intact and reboot your system.
5.] Press ‘DEL’ during POST (Power-On-Self-Test) to enter ‘BIOS Setup’, then set everything to ‘Default – press F5’ (Keyboard Layout May Be Different). But, please don’t forget to set your USB devices to boot first – NOT your Hard Drive! If that is too hard for you, just press F8 (Boot Menu) to reboot.
Notes: if you are an overclocker / gamer, don’t be daft and brick your motherboard. Please set everything to default – it’s for the best!
6.] Save your Default settings and ‘Exit – F10’. (Reboot BIOS).
7.] When you are in ‘DOS Mode’, just type / copy / replace what I wrote below. However, your drive letters may be different…
o *Backup
i *Flash / Update
A:\>cd bios A:\BIOS>dir ****** A:\BIOS>bupdater /o<name>.rom ****** A:\BIOS>dir A:\BIOS>bupdater /i<bios_profile>.rom
8.] Exit and restore your BIOS to Default.
Alternative: if you don’t like to fiddle with DOS, then head straight to ‘BIOS setup’ and look for ‘EZ-Flash 2.’ This program is located within the bios ‘Tools’ section.
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