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There are a couple of sources of eeePC BIOS downloads.
The official source (direct from ASUS) can be directly accessed at http://update.eeepc.asus.com/bios/
The other (more interesting source) is http://osrom.net/biosmod/. They have a list of hacked up BIOS for the eeePC to support OSX directly (with fixed DSDT’s). Currently they have the eeePC 901, 1000, 1000H, 1000HD, and the EeeBOX B202 on the list. So if you have the 1000H then you can take a look there for a BIOS. Just note, that they (and I) take no responsibility for your choice of flashing 😉
Currently they don’t have any upgraded BIOS for the 1000HG… Although if you want to take it further osrom.net seem to offer a way to request a mod to your chosen BIOS. Although take this at face value, as it’s a free service.
Phew! I just had a similar problem while trying to flash the BIOS on my 1000HA. I managed to “force” the patched 1000H Mac BIOS onto the system, but some of the keyboard keys stopped working. When I tried to re-flash the BIOS back to the original version, it froze 30% through the writing process.
Needless to say, my heart stopped. I quickly did a Google search for “eee pc bricked bios” and found your blog post. After reading your story, I became hopeful that the problem was solvable.
I downloaded the latest “correct” BIOS firmware from ASUS, and renamed it to 1000H.ROM and stored it on my DOS-Bootable USB thumb drive, then I rebooted the computer.
I tried the FN+CTRL+HOME method a few times, but nothing came up on the screen. But I did notice that the LED on the thumb drive light flashed for a bit. And then, when I powered off the computer, and turned it back on, I was greeted with the friendly gray “Eee PC” splash screen again!
Problem Solved!
Hello,
I don’t know what happened because I didn’t have my eeepc 701 at that time, but now I’m having the same problem. The wifi light up, the one left of wifi (the disk I think) flash one time about a half-second, then the green power light up and the screen stay black and nothing more. I tried connecting an external monitor, reseating the RAM, changing the stick to a PC4200 (all what I had), tried everything to reflash the BIOS (hold power 30 sec with battery/AC out, holding alt-f2 while booting, removing the battery/AC & waiting 5 min & pressing 5 sec the reset button, tried the fn+home+ctrl with the USB stick in). When trying your method, my USB stick light up just when I put it in (before I power up the eeepc it flash one time upon insertion) and not after I power it up. I’ll continue to try this but maybe you could give me more info on the timing. For example, at what interval should I press the key? Fast between each, slowly, do I need to release them just after, etc. I’m kind of out of ideas… Any other ideas besides sending it back to Asus as my warranty is probably over… Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry to hear about the problems. As you’ve read it took me a long time to get the timing right and I ended up trying everything from holding the key striaght on boot, to waiting a few seconds. The only thing I can suggest is to keep trying using slightly different timing. If you press too soon then it wont take effect (same with too late unfortunately).
Big thanks for this post… have a 1000HG and was about to make the same mistake!!! Although I don’t think I would have gone and edited the BIN file directly this guy was asking for trouble!