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How to update Award Modular Bios? Bios Update

#1 john23jay

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Location:Laguna

Posted 19 July 2009 - 02:41 AM

Hi there. I have a problem with regards on where to find and how to update my bios. I'm going to install Ubuntu 9.04 today but the setup found out that my bios date is 10/19/99.
Unfortunately, its cut-off bios date must be at least 2000. So the setup was cancelled. :huh:

Here are some information on my PC:

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
Pentium III 551MHz
128MB memory

Here are the information during PC boot:

(top left corner)
Award Modular Bios v4.51PG(bios brand and version)
Asus P2B-F ACPI Bios Revision 1011
Award plug & play bios extension v1.0A

(bottom left corner)
10/19/99-i440BX-<P2B-F>

Could you tell me the Award Modular website for me to download an update?
Or could you just help me how to do it?
Please help! I need to update my bios. Thanks for any help! :thumbsup:

#2 garmanma

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 02:31 PM

Award will not have the specific BIOS
You need to go to Asus:
http://support.asus.com/download/download....SLanguage=en-us

Product - Motherboard
Series - Slot One
Model - P2B-F
Operating System - W 9X

This post has been edited by garmanma: 19 July 2009 - 02:35 PM

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#3 john23jay

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 11:32 AM

thanks garmanma!

now, there are 7 files found in the search. should i download them all or which of them only?
what do you think?

can u teach me how to do it? the process how to update this thing?
because i'm not that techie when it comes to bios..

thanks again! :thumbsup: