We have several Pundits around the house and they tend to ship with rather old BIOS revisions. In an attempt to try and fix a problem with my Pundit AH-2 sometimes refusing to recognise a SATA hard disk, I wanted to upgrade the BIOS to the latest version. The Pundit doesn’t have a floppy and I didn’t want all the hassle of trying to make a bootable DOS CD with all the right software installed. Luckily I found out that pressing Alt-F2 during the POST sequence will drop you into the built in EZ Flash utility. You might need a couple of attempts to get to the utility - wait until the Asus splash screen appears, hold down the alt key and repeatedly bash F2.

There is one gotcha the downloaded BIOS images have file names like P1AH2_404.BIN. You will need to rename the extracted file to P1AH2.BIN, or the EZ flash utility will complain that it can’t load the file. So the procedure is:

• Rename the bin file to the correct name eg. P1AH2.BIN
• Burn BIN file to CD and insert into Pundit.
• Reboot. Hold down the Alt key when the Asus splash screen appears and keep pressing F2 until you get into the EZ Flash utility.