How to Flash an ASUS Motherboard BIOS Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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all right so this will be the assus version of my BIOS upgrading guide so
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I'm just going to show you the first step which is go to the ASUS website The
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Next Step which is go to Services go to support so more accurately go to the
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ASUS support website I'm going to search
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by product name in this case I have a p67
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deluxe going to go ahead and search for
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that yeah it helps if you spell deluxe without an r at the end
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Deluxe it's more deluxe than the other Deluxe there we go so
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downloads well the OS that I have is Windows 7 64-bit which won't be relevant
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at all but that's okay BIOS downloads here we go so there's the BIOS update
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from April 1st hopefully it's not a joke
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but apparently it improves system compatibility Neato all right so we're
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going to go ahead and open that up all right so it's just a ROM file so I go
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ahead and put my USB thumb drive into the back of the
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computer in a USB
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slot okay got that on there apparently I
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accidentally hit my auto brightness button okay so now I just copy this into
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the root of my Patriot
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Drive four Megs this board uses an EFI
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BIOS which means that it uses larger BIOS files cuz it has a graphical
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interface and whatnot go ahead restart
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the board so when I'm restarting I'm going
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to press delete to get into the BIOS and
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then actually this should go pretty quick so you guys can just stay with me
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here that's me with my headphones holding my camera
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hello please put something on the screen now
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Mr computer oh and I missed it okay I'll be
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back in a sec I'm going to press delete a little earlier so that I don't miss it
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again just a moment there we go here I
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am in the UI BIOS I'm going to go ahead and go into advanced mode because
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apparently it is Advanced to upgrade your BIOS I'm going to go into tools I'm
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going to go into the easy Flash 2 utility I'm going to see some graphical
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artifacts on the screen here we are I'm going to find the
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BIOS that I just downloaded at some point there it
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is I'm going to re read this
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file now my usual tips uh first of all
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before upgrading your BIOS you should always make sure that you're running at
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stock speeds on your motherboard so that you don't run into any issues with an
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overclocking setting causing instability
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which could cause a crash or Corruption of the data while you are flashing the
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BIOS I also recommend that you um use a
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UPS or some other device that will ensure that your system does not
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accidentally power down while you're flashing the BIOS the reason for that is
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if that happens it could also corrupt the data which could cause your board to
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become bricked which is
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bad still flashing uh once the bio flash
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is complete it will likely reset all of your settings if you had any change so
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you may need to reset your boot order or change any
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um settings like whether you want to see your BIOS splash screen things like that
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and that took a little while now it's finally done so I'll show you guys once
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we get back into Windows how to confirm that the BIOS flash is complete so here
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you go guys we'll just check under main board and CPU Z to see that yes we are
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indeed running the latest BIOS on this board at this time actually I'm just
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going to double check that really quick 1503 yep that's the right one so
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while you may have noticed that the um
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change log for this BIOS was pretty vag uh that's pretty normal so most
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manufacturers don't recommend that you upgrade your BIOS unless you're experiencing some kind of problem with
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your system but my comment to you would be that yes you should upgrade if you're
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experiencing a problem with your system but don't worry about whether the
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problem with your system is actually on the change log because they're usually
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incomplete and vague so often times they
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improve things that are not listed on the change log so now we're running the
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