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

[Bas Roufs]

PARTLY SOLVED.

> I have the exact same issue with my Eeepc 1001HA. I could not update the
> bios in anyways you mentioned. I could not find out why.

The most important reason why I thought that my bios had not been
sufficiently updated, was a problem with my touchpad in combination
with a jumping cursor. But today, someone at the forum gave me a good
hint:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
Now, the problem with respect to the touchpad has been solved. The
cursor does not jump any more uncontrollably all the time.
In the mean time, I did manage to 'flash' the bios via a special
update software package at the windows partition. But I am not yet
sure whether this will be also enough for the Linux partition. I will
check this with ASUS and elsewhere and report my findings to this
forum.

Respectfully yours,

Bas.