So I am trying to hack my eeePC in order to make it do…er…stuff. And in the process I realized my firmware was running a little behind. And do you know what happened when I tried to upgrade it? I got an error.
'1005ha.rom' Not Found
And so I took the following steps to fix it.
- Renamed my ROM file from 1005HA-ASUS-0703.ROM to 1005HA.ROM
- Formatted a thumb drive to FAT32
- Copied over the .ROM file into the root directory of the thumb drive
- Reboot
- Pressed F2 to get into BIOS
- Change the boot device priority to make the USB drive the Primary
- Went into boot settings and DISABLED ‘quiet boot’ (so that we could see POST info)
- DISABLE ‘Boot Booster’
- pressed the F10 key and saved my BIOS settings
- During POST I pressed Alt+F2
It found my renamed .ROM ’1005ha.rom’ and Viola! All set.
Mine would not work with FAT32, Format with FAT and it works perfect.
Interesting…
That really doesn’t make much sense because I know that FAT32 is one of the most widely supported file systems around. I would be interested to hear exactly how you stepped through the creation and formatting of your usb drive.
Never the less, thanks for the reply.
Can someone else can validate this type of experience?
Yeah same here. Def would of thought FAT32 would work but I’m glad I checked e. Changed it to FAT and it worked fine. Funny that it could see the file just not access it under FAT32.
Oh and all that changing BIOS settings is unnecessary. Just hold ALT+F2 on post.
@JCarr
Are you using windows to format the usb device? Just curious…
And the extraneous bios adjustments are meant to show the POST information clearly upon boot. You are correct though, all one really has to do is ‘alt+f2′
Thanks for the info – jared