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Asus Terminator, terminating my mind. BIOS refusing to upgrade.

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First post, by Ahrle

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3rd day into this project, the old-school barebone Terminator (fancy name on quite a dull machine 😁).
Trying to upgrade BIOS as it's pretty bugged (unstable RAM with stock BIOS settings, internal Savage4 not disabling with discrete GPU, unstable IDE, etc)

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As you can see, BIOS version is 1002C. Downloaded 1003 from Asus and TheRetroWeb. Awdflash 7.89 hangs when loading the file. 8.99 gives this message:

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Also tried UniFlash, with "upgrade" options greyed out:

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Is there hope or are we terminated?

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Main: IBM PC300PL | PIII 750 | Viper AGP + V2 SLi | CT4500

Reply 1 of 2, by PcBytes

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Tried Uniflash with the -ASUS option? IIRC Uniflash also had that switch for ASUS mainboards that were stubborn.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Ahrle

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PcBytes wrote on 2025-12-19, 19:28:

Tried Uniflash with the -ASUS option? IIRC Uniflash also had that switch for ASUS mainboards that were stubborn.

That was it! Thanks! 😁

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Project 357575: ECS U4914-G | i486DX2-66 | ET4000/W32 | CT3900
Main: IBM PC300PL | PIII 750 | Viper AGP + V2 SLi | CT4500

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