Asus MEB-VM and "Can't find system BIOS' Hook"

[paranoidandroid]

lo all

I have this problem on a mobo buyed this past week.
This mobo dont seems to recognize an old hdd ( seagate 10GB ), so i wanted to flash the bios with the 1008 version, which i can find at this page : http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download ... ype=Latest .

When i use the flash utility on this page ( aflash ), launching it, it print this error : "Can't find system BIOS' Hook".

I tried with a pflash.exe ( i think its that one i have to use, cause i have a phoenix bios ) found in the asus ftp, but it gives me the same error.

I dont know how to fix it.

Something that may be important, when i boot i see the HP Logo. SO i have concluded that HP have locked the bios. How to fix it ?

Thx

Sorry for my poor english.

[Denniss]

HP OEM mainboard - you should use HP Bios as the board might be modified from Asus standard .

With Asus Bios you might have success using Uniflash to flash it

[notinthisworld]

hi i have a similar problem with this manufacturer's board, ASUS.
i have a p4s533-mx (i'm quite positive that it's not OEM). weird thing, i get the same message everytime i load aflash(downloaded from asus). it says "Can't find system BIOS' Hook". then i tried to use awdflash, the programs runs bu it could not load the 1006mx.awd file. any hints guys? thanks.

sliightly OT: can i use uniflash flash eeprom with .awd files? or do i need to look for a .bin file?

God Bless

[Denniss]

Asus should offer a Flashprog for theses boards, Aflash is for older motherboard types. AFAIR it's named Afudos or similar.

[notinthisworld]

oh no. does this mean i can't flash my bios at this time???

[edwin]

http://support.asus.com/technicaldocume ... uage=en-us

afudos can be had from the site as well.