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

[Xander Pirdy]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


The bios is located on the motherboard and as such, is hardware based, it
doesn't even care about what is on your hard drive. Updating from windows,
is a permanent change that is stored to the motherboard. Changing hard
drives or booting linux won't change this. Just FYI.

-xander

> I will
> check this with ASUS and elsewhere and report my findings to this
> forum.
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> Bas.
>
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