How to safely and effectively refresh the bios at my Asus Eee PC 1001HA?

[Nathan Bahn]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear forum members
>
> So far, my attempts to "flash"/ refresh the bios of my netbook failed.
> My netbook is an Asus Eee PC 1001HA, with a dual boot configuration:
> Kubuntu 9.10 netbook remix and Win7. I tried 3 methods proposed by
> Asus:
> at the Windows partition, via some special bios update tool;
> with MS-DOS or Freedos at bootable CD's and USB sticks, in combination
> with the latest version of the so-called 'afudos' utility;
> with "EZ flash", also together with a bootable USB or CD.
> None of the 3 methods has worked so far in my case.
> Does anybody have experience with any method which effectively helps
> to refresh the bios of some Asus Eee PC?
>
> Thx. for replying,
>
> Bas Roufs.
>
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B.R.--

First of all, you don't say what your reasons are for wanting to "flash the
BIOS".  Flashing a BIOS should only be done for a *damned* good reason
because if *ANYTHING* goes wrong while the BIOS is being flashed, then your
motherboard will instantly become just so much scrap metal (an
uninterruptable power source is strongly recommended).  *FLASHING THE BIOS
SHOULD NEVER BE UNDERTAKEN LIGHTLY**!!!*

Second of all, (and this is a minor thing, but still.....) you don't *
explicitly* state that your optical drive and USB port(s?) are working
properly -- and I'm assuming that there's no floppy drive.

--N.B.
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