I haven't yet tried updating my Pundit's BIOS since I'm not sure how to without a floppy drive and windout Windows. But, I remember seeing something in the Pundit's manual about a "CrashFree BIOS" feature where if you BIOS becomes corrupt you can still boot off of a floppy and run the BIOS updater. See page 6-8 in the manual (http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Barebone/Pundit/manual/e1181_pundit.pdf).
Now, I'm not sure how to fit a floppy disk into the Pundit since it doesn't have a floppy drive. I don't even think there is an connetor for a floppy drive on the motherboard (you may want to verify this yourself). My only thought is you may want to try using a USB keychain drive that supports boot floppy emulation. I once had one of these and it had a switch on it where in one position the drive showed up as a 1.4MB partition and a 30MB partition and was not bootable, but in the other position, only the 1.4MB partition showed up and I was able to boot ASUS motherboards (never tried on the Pundit) with it. Also, it may be possible to use a USB floppy drive. Good luck and please let me know how this goes for you. - Jason On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:40:11 +0100, Radek Svoboda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > today, I tried to flash (using ASUS windows Update utility from the > file) the Pundit BIOS from the 1005 to latest release found on the web - > 1009. During the flash process it failed to verify - checksum failed. I > tried multiple times, but without success. So I did exit, thinking that > it did not confirm the write .. what a MISTAKE .. on the reboot, the > machine was dead (and still is). The fans spins at full speed, no VGA > image, .. totally dead. > > Please, did somebody experienced the similar problem? Is there any > solution I can do? I tried to remove battery and shortcut the > appropriate pins, but it did not helped at all. > > Please help ... > > Radek Svoboda > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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