Justin's OSX86 Experience - M2N-SLI Deluxe BIOS Borking
Guide

post from InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List on 30 November 2008 08:53:42 AM. © InsanelyMac Forum Community Blog List

M2N-SLI Deluxe BIOS Borking Guide

1. Go to Asus.com to download the latest bios for your mobo.
2. Download all drivers/utilities for your mobo.
3. Notice that the utility "Asus Update" can download and flash your bios from Windows.
4. Knowing that you should save the bios update to a usb thumb drive and reboot into the bios setup to flash. You instead use this program and allow it to <strike>flash</strike> "BORK" your bios.
5. Reboot only to find nothing is happening.

Yeah so I noticed that there were several bios updates since I last flashed. I figured I might upgrade to a new flashy AMD processor so I might as well update the bios.
Well it started flashing and got to 86% and paused. Then it completed flashing but failed on the verification.

So I Pulled the battery and shorted the jumpers. No good. I then remembered that my bios has Asus CrashFree installed. This should allow me to revert and recover from a bad flash. Well I restart with the mobo driver disk and got nothing. I then stripped the computer to barebones. I followed some recomendations and replaced the pci express graphics card with a PCI card. So now I have just an IDE cdrom, PCI graphics and processor. I now boots off the CDROM but instead some running CrashFree it gives me this error.

Bad or missing Command Interpreter
Enter the full shell command line:
command.com /P /E:256

Some error from FreeDOS which I assume is whats on the Asus driver disk.

I call Asus and bring the tech support guy up to date. He says flashing the bios from "asus update" in windows is a bad idea. Most people have problems with this.
Well Id say take that #%^*%^ utility off the website or give me some kinda warning.
I tried to get him to go over CrashFree with me and he says "That never works".