Hi
I have an Asus K95VM with an AMIbios that is almost bricked. Just before Christmas, I downloaded the newest bios-ver from Asus support homepage and flashed it with winflash (a tool that flashes bios directly from windows). The flashing looked fine with check and everything, but when I rebooted the computer it did not start - only light in the power button, but nothing on the screen.
I've been lucky to discover that if I remove the bios battery for some hours and but it back in, I can get the computer to boot and reboot, but power off once and it's dead again!
So I have tried to reflash the bios during one of the succesfull boot sequences.
If I use the Asus Easy Flash tool directly from the bios menu, I get an error saying "build date is too old" - assuming that it's a protection not to flash the bios with old sw(?).
If I use a bootable USB-stick with AFUDOS, regardless of what command I try, the AFUDOS says "Error - bios is write protected".
I have also tried to do the Ctrl+Home button + AMIBIOS.ROM on a usb-stick, but nothing happens.
Can someone please help me? - I assume that if I could get some bios-sw with a never build date, it would work? - Asus support has been friendly, but they can not provide me with a bios-sw that has a never build date. The bios-sw that I have used from the asus homepage is called K45VM-AS.230.
Thanks in advance.
Claus
I have an Asus K95VM with an AMIbios that is almost bricked. Just before Christmas, I downloaded the newest bios-ver from Asus support homepage and flashed it with winflash (a tool that flashes bios directly from windows). The flashing looked fine with check and everything, but when I rebooted the computer it did not start - only light in the power button, but nothing on the screen.
I've been lucky to discover that if I remove the bios battery for some hours and but it back in, I can get the computer to boot and reboot, but power off once and it's dead again!
So I have tried to reflash the bios during one of the succesfull boot sequences.
If I use the Asus Easy Flash tool directly from the bios menu, I get an error saying "build date is too old" - assuming that it's a protection not to flash the bios with old sw(?).
If I use a bootable USB-stick with AFUDOS, regardless of what command I try, the AFUDOS says "Error - bios is write protected".
I have also tried to do the Ctrl+Home button + AMIBIOS.ROM on a usb-stick, but nothing happens.
Can someone please help me? - I assume that if I could get some bios-sw with a never build date, it would work? - Asus support has been friendly, but they can not provide me with a bios-sw that has a never build date. The bios-sw that I have used from the asus homepage is called K45VM-AS.230.
Thanks in advance.
Claus