Need help with my "unkown bios type" ASUS P2L97
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:59 pm
Hello all,
I just threw together a little frankenstien out of some of my old hardware including an ASUS P2L97 rev 1.05 MoBo and a PentiumII slot 1 CPU @ 266Mhz.
I tried to update tp the lates bios to support modern HDDs and CPUs (although this is unneccissary with my CPU) but I am getting the cannot program ROM due to unkown bios type deal. I thought maybe a bios protect jumper but I cant see one in the manual available from ASUS web site or on the board. The manual says that it means the ROM is not programmable but I am not giving up that easy! Why would there be a Bios revision if the bios was not programmable?!
Anyway after doing some GOOGLE group searching I see that in this boards hayday ASUS used a different flashing programm, actually two, called "PFLASH.EXE" and IIRC "FPFLASH.EXE". Some of the posts mentioned that my Bios is a 2M (two mega bit) type ROM and my board having the early revision does not contaian the thermal sensor add on chip.
Anyway since I am not at home now I cannot give the specific chip number from the bios but I was thinking maybe someone could tell me if the older PFLASH.EXE may allow me to write the bios where as the newer AFLASH.EXE doesn't recognize my chip. Failing that maybe someone has an additional suggestion. Thanks for any input in advance.
I just threw together a little frankenstien out of some of my old hardware including an ASUS P2L97 rev 1.05 MoBo and a PentiumII slot 1 CPU @ 266Mhz.
I tried to update tp the lates bios to support modern HDDs and CPUs (although this is unneccissary with my CPU) but I am getting the cannot program ROM due to unkown bios type deal. I thought maybe a bios protect jumper but I cant see one in the manual available from ASUS web site or on the board. The manual says that it means the ROM is not programmable but I am not giving up that easy! Why would there be a Bios revision if the bios was not programmable?!
Anyway after doing some GOOGLE group searching I see that in this boards hayday ASUS used a different flashing programm, actually two, called "PFLASH.EXE" and IIRC "FPFLASH.EXE". Some of the posts mentioned that my Bios is a 2M (two mega bit) type ROM and my board having the early revision does not contaian the thermal sensor add on chip.
Anyway since I am not at home now I cannot give the specific chip number from the bios but I was thinking maybe someone could tell me if the older PFLASH.EXE may allow me to write the bios where as the newer AFLASH.EXE doesn't recognize my chip. Failing that maybe someone has an additional suggestion. Thanks for any input in advance.