As a possible solution to a previous question, it was suggested to update the bios of my Asus Eee Pc 1001 PXD with Lubuntu 16.04. As stated in this FAQ on the Asus website, I downloaded the latest version of the bios and firmware update from the website, created a Fat16 USB and copied the ROM file in the USB with the correct name "1001PXD.ROM". Then, I have switched off my PC, inserted the USB and entered the EZ-Flash utility for updating the bios.

The first strange thing is that if the only Fat16 partition of my USB is larger than 1Gb, the system will not find the USB device, while if I force the partition to be smaller than that, the screen reads "USB Device found."

After this, it shows the message:

Reading file "1001PXD.ROM"

and it does not move from that message for more than 45 minutes (after that time, I assumed the system to be stuck and I rebooted it). In this time, the led of the USB device, after a few flashes in the first seconds in which the message is shown, is always switched off.

I have also tried with the penultimate version of the update instead of the latest one, but the same problem occurs.

Does anyone have any suggestion for correctly updating the bios?

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You have to change the file name to "1015PE.ROM".

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Use a standard FAT32 formatted USB stick.

The above link is where you can download the only BIOS version (0703) published by Asus for you model.

According to the guide linked in the question, just download the ZIP file and extract its contents - a single file named 1001PXD-ASUS-0703.ROM - to the root of the USB stick.

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I had very same problem. Checked a 5 different usb and failed. In the end i found answer on some forum that guy faced issue until he used a really old usb stick. In my case 32kb allocation fat16 on sdcard 2gb taken out from old cannon camera helped. I had to rename also 1001PXD-ASUS-0703.ROM into 1001PXD.ROM. Then normal alt -f2 during bootup did the trick.

Original forum i found information on (in polish)

Good luck (if you still trying;) its been a while since post)

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