Is it still problematic use a flash drive to update bios for Asus P6t?

I bought my motherboard as an open box item 3 years ago or so. I think that bios have need to be updated since I bought the motherboard. When I put the computer to sleep one of the hard drives disappears. Plus it just doesn't seem to start as quickly as it should.

I have avoided updating the BIOS because I want to use the flash drive method to accomplish this .A long while ago I heard that a fair amount of people were running into serious problems when trying to update the bios is a a flash drive.

There is an alternative method to do this but, it involves unplugging the power cord from the wall. I use a wheelchair so it would be very difficult for me to reach this.

Any advice would be appreciated. I just want to be sure that I do not wind up screwing up my system.

 

Have you updated the drivers for the HDD controllers?
I don't know your motherboard, but mine has Intel and JMicron SATA ports so in my case, moving the HDD from an Intel to a JMicron port might pin down the problem.

 

I have not tried that yet, like I mentioned above I use a wheelchair so it is very difficult for me to get down to the computer and hands-on physical manipulation of the components is something I would like to avoid.



But that might be something I need to try. I will try updating the drivers for the hard drives.

Thank you for the help. I will let you know how it goes.

 

Updating the hard drive drivers seems to have done the trick. The computer seems to boot faster and more efficiently than it ever did before.

Thanks for the advice I don't know why I have it stuck in my head that it must have been the bios. For such a simple and quick fix I wish I would have done it a long long long long time ago.

 

I may be a little bit of a dummy but not completely apparently. Updating the drivers has really only fixed one of my problems. I don't have any difficulty putting the computer to sleep anymore.

However, the computer still boots strangely and possibly slowly.

Once I reach the desktop, all the icons are there. Then they are replaced by generic icons then, slowly but surely the original icons repopulate and replace the generic icons.

I thought there was something wrong with this behavior but a similar process happens on my Dell laptop.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

 

Run msconfig and look under the 'Startup' tab to see how many programs insist on running at startup.

 

I did not take a look at what exactly they fix because I was afraid of the upgrade process anyway.

Unfortunately, I am completely back to square one. Now my hard drive is disappearing when I put the computer to sleep. I have no idea why it worked for a short period of time.

 

Thanks for the help.



sata hard drive
Asus p6t
American magatrends 1201, date 2/24/2010