Updating Bios is easy?

Hey i just got a asus g1s, and theres a bios update to fix the media button. can i just take my out of the box g1s and update it to version 205 i think it is? that fixs the media button, and is it easy to update? do i just install the file and it does itself basicly?

 

It is easy - you can just download the BIOS file -203 is latest I believe - then use Winflash (in program files / Asus Utility) to install the new BIOS file. Or use the BIOS update function within the BIOS itself.

Do NOT turn off the computer or do ANYTHING while it is flashing the BIOS, and make sure you are on AC power when you do it.

Once the flash is completed you will get a "flash successful" message then go into the BIOS (using F2 at startup) and load BIOS defaults, then you are good to go.

In general though, unless there is a problem you need fixing by the BIOS upgrade, leave well alone. And if you are not sure what to do, get someone who knows to help you.

 

Copy pasting from an old post of mine:

To make a long story short.
BIOS should only be updated if the update is needed. Then again, many times when an update is needed, it's needed badly and there is something running poorly in the system without it.

How to check: verify list of changes for that BIOS. It should be on the download site of the BIOS file.

How to upgrate: you don't need to "uninstall" anything, since the BIOS is just a chunk of flash memory 512KB in size on a special chip on the motherboard. This memory should get overwritten in the upgrade process; overwriting, once started, takes about 15 seconds. You need to download the BIOS file, i.e., the raw content of the new BIOS, 512KB in size. This is usually a ZIP file on the ASUS support page. Unzip it to get the BIOS file, which directly usable by the flash utility.

Flash utility: For many ASUS notebooks, there is an utility in the BIOS menu itself, accessible via pressing F2 during boot, and then navigating to "Start Flashing BIOS" or "Start Easy Flash Utility" or something like that. Otherwise, there is a DOS utility on the ASUS support site, and a Windows utility as well.

As always, I recommend that the upgrade be done with the BIOS utility if it is available, as it involves no Operating System (whether Windows or DOS) and therefore is much less prone to errors. And failure during BIOS writing means death for the computer (temporary death, since the chip can be removed and written anew by techsupport, but death anyway).

For the same reason, have a good amount of charge in your battery when starting the utility (more than 10 minutes worth of it). That way, you don't depend on the AC supply which might run out just in the critical few seconds.

Precise walkthrough for overwriting BIOS using the BIOS Flash utility:
1. Download BIOS.
2. Unzip into the root folder on a flash drive.
3. Insert flash drive.
4. Reboot, press F2 to go into BIOS, navigate to "Start Easy Flash Utility" or a similar name. Select this option.
5. At the ensuing explorer-like navigation screen, navigate to the flash drive and select the unzipped BIOS file.
6. Wait until BIOS is written. The computer will reboot itself.
7. Go into BIOS and select "Reset to Defaults"; either User or Manufacturer defaults.
8. Navigate around BIOS and select options the way you like them (boot device order etc.)

 

thanks alot guys, i guess ill leave it alone, it fixs the media button tho on the g1s, ill just wait until more updates are made.


i dont get this part though, unzip it where?

2. Unzip into the root folder on a flash drive.

 

Well if you use the media button then I say go ahead and update.

What I mean by that sentence is that you should have a USB memory stick available, and you should unzip the BIOS binary file from the ZIP archive into the main directory on that memory stick (the "root folder") (like J: or K: for instance)

 

alright so i unzip it onto a jumpdrive, then go into the bios and flash the new bios from the jumpdrive.

 

Yep, that's about it.

Make sure you don't restart or touch the computer until it has finished flashing, once it's started.

Other than that, you should be OK.

Note that the letter for the jumpdrive will change when seen by the EasyFlash utility, it will be perhaps A: or B:, or it might come after the HDD partitions like in Windows.

If by chance the G1S BIOS does not have the EasyFlash utility, then please post back. You will need to use the windows-based utility, but that's also quite easy.