flash bios with bootable USB

[dumble]

Hello,

I have this motherboard: foxconn g31mxp-k

I managed to create a bootable USB! I used this great guide;

http://www.biosflash.de/e/bios-boot-usb-stick.htm

But now I have another problem!

I boot on the USB. I type

C:/ awdflash 861F107.BIN

It starts with the flashing procedure.. But at the end it gives this message:

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Flash ROM is Write-Protected

Please make sure whether lockout jumpers is set to correct or not

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I searched on my motherboard and I looked in the guide but I could not find such a thing as lockout jumpers. Here is a detailed guide of my motherboard:

http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/da...MXP_Series.pdf

There is an option in the BIOS setup called ?Super BIOS protect?.., but this is disabled.

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Before I tried to update, I loaded default bios settings.. (with default settings Super BIOS protect is also disabled!)

Can someone please help me?

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

The link you provided did for your Foxcon G31MXP-K motherboard's manual did not work for me, but I found it available here on Foxconn's support web site.

Looking through it I did not see any references to a jumper to set on the motherboard for BIOS upgrades, so perhaps it would be better to use their Windows-based utility to flash it, instead.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[dumble]

A strange thing happened.. ill explain:

Because of the error message I got after the flash procedure. I didnt know what to do. First I thought: ´ah no!..´ I messed up my motherboard. But after the error I could just reboot the computer into windows7 and it worked. But i figured, because of the error message, my bios was not updated.. So I started looking for a solution, which I did not found. And the next day I started looking again and opened Everest, I suddenly saw that my bios number was 861F107 instead of my older version 861F103. So despite of the error message I received after the bios procedure it still updated the bios.. Weird huh?

I found out one other little thing that might be the cause of this thing. Because I updated my BIOS without all the ´switches´ .

I updated with this command:

C:/ awdflash 861F107.BIN

And after I found out on foxxconn support website that I should have used these switches:

C:/ AWDFLASH 861F107.BIN /py/sn/cc/cd/cp/wb

So now I wonder what to do? Should I flash my bios again with these switches? Of just leave it be?

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

If the BIOS is updated and the system is running, then it sounds like you accomplished your BIOS upgrade.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky