Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
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Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
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Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#2Good grief
The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me.
Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS https://fwupd.org/> and make firmware updates as simple as 'fwupdmgr update'.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#3Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS https://fwupd.org/ > and make firmware updates as simple as 'fwupdmgr update'.
You can actually use `fwupdtool install-blob` to update the UEFI if the board supports and uses UEFI capsule update. I did that with my Asus B550-I and it just worked, it reboots to ASUS EZ-Flash and does the update automatically.
All Asus would need to do is publish updates on LVFS.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#4I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates.
The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to read back through all of them to figure out which ones to install.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#5I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates. The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to…
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Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#6I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates. The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to…
The annoying thing about the release notes is whether buying new or used, the BIOS is usually wildly out of date, so you end up in an unwinnable scenario.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#7I was thinking about picking up this exact combo at microcenter. This is good to know.
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#8Good grief The ineptitude of firmware programmers continues to astound me. Asus should upload their firmware to the LVFS https://fwupd.org/ > and make firmware updates as simple as 'fwupdmgr update'.
You can actually use `fwupdtool install-blob` to update the UEFI if the board supports and uses UEFI capsule update. I did that with my Asus B550-I and it just worked, it reboots to ASUS EZ-Flash and does the update automatically. All Asus would need to do is publish updates on LVFS.
How do you know if the board supports it? Asking because I want to update my firmware for my lenovo legion
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#9I updated my asus mainboard recently too. It was straightforward: Copy the new firmware image into the efi partition somewhere. Reboot. Select the efi fat32 partition and the firmware blob therein in ez flash. Update.
Why format an usb stick when there is already a perfectly good fat32 partition lying around?
Re: Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS
#10Guess I was lucky then, I flashed a very similar new asus motherboard from this same generation for AMD ryzen 7000 cpu's, I used the first random usb stick lying around, wrote the bios update to it from linux, possibly had to rename the file to something specific (manually. Who needs a tool for that? Also why doesn't asus just give it the correct name in the zip file?), and flashing worked first try. May have been a usb 2.0 stick though.
Rebooting after that does take a while though (minutes) since it needs to re-learn the RAM. And this is a painful process indeed, especially when I originally just had the mobo since I had probably not seated the RAM to the fullest extent (DDR 4 seems to require pressing it very well even after it already clearly clicked in, after pushing it harder it worked well), and the only feedback from the mobo was very similar LED codes as when it "learns" the RAM, and sometimes even half working...