EasyFlash Problem

I couldn't find anything on Google (or here) about this, so I thought I'd ask it myself. I'm trying to update my G1s bios from 202 to 300 (I'd like to install XP, am running Vista 32bit), and I'm having a bit of a problem with EasyFlash. I have a USB drive, and I unzipped the bios file onto it. I put it in and rebooted, got to EasyFlash, and it wouldn't find the flash drive. Fine. So, I put the file onto my C drive. It wouldn't even find the file. I don't think it's an extension problem, because it finds every other file and folder on my C drive, and I'm sure I'm not missing it. The file just isn't there. Whenever I press escape to get out of EasyFlash, it gives me the message "Cannot load BIOS image from external rom drive" or something similar. I don't know if that's supposed to happen. Windows then boots fine.

I suppose I could update the BIOS a different way, but there's no guarantee that'd work either, and for something like this I'd like to know what's not working (especially if it's me).

All my other USB things are unplugged, I've tried the file in several places, tried going to Easy Flash through F2 instead of F4, restarted a bunch of times, tried the file in several different places and on my C and D drives. I honestly don't know what the problem is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Take a quick look at THIS thread if you haven't already. EBE has created an excellent guide for updating your BIOS - there's a section dedicated to EasyFlash which you may find useful.

 

Thanks for the help. I did see that page before. It's definitely helpful, but it doesn't solve my problem of the BIOS file just not showing up. I downloaded and tried to find a different version (205) and got the same problem; it wasn't there. I'm hesitant to try Aflash when the method that's supposed to be the easiest and safest isn't working.

 

did you do the "NtfsDisable8dot3namecreation" = 1 (HKLM\Hardware\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem) performance tweak in regedit?
if the value doesnt exist, create it (dword), and set it to 0.

restart windows. copy and paste the bios file, even to/from the same directory, so its created with a DOS name.

check if it appears in ezflash. the "cannot load rom image" message is normal when exiting.