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    Asus F9Eseries AMI BIOS recovery.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by dormix, Oct 23, 2011.

  1. dormix

    dormix Newbie

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    Hi all, I have a problem with this notebook and maybe someone here should help me. I flashed my friend asus laptop AMI bios with the last rom but something has gone wrong and now the laptop screen remain black and only two led are alighted. I found a recovery procedure that involves the use of Ctrl + Home keys using a floppy disk and this laptop doesn't have any floppy drive then I tried with bootable cd and bootable usb stick unsuccessfully. Maybe there should be different keys combination but I didn't found nothing. Please can you help me to solve that problem.

    Many thanks in advance!
     
    dormix, Oct 23, 2011
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  2. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    If the CTRL+HOME trick is going to work, you need a FAT16 formatted USB stick with a bios ROM image on it named AMIBOOT.ROM

    You need to spam the CTRL+HOME keystroke constantly once you turn the machine on. You will then see the USB indicator flash if it is working.

    This hasn't worked for any laptop in ages - so I am not sure if it will work on your system.

    Your best bet is to send it in to ASUS and have them reflash the BIOS with an EEPROM programmer.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Oct 23, 2011
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