Trying to update Asus BIOS: FreeDOS crashes

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Published on 2014-06-13T00:33:44Z Indexed on 2014/06/13 3:40 UTC
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My UX31 zenbook is experiencing some weird shutdown behavior when the battery drops below 50% and the internet seems to agree that updating the BIOS is a good step forward since there were issue with the kernel before.

I downloaded both the correct BIOS file and the windows 7 utility tool and now need to boot FreeDOS to run, however, I've tried every method out there and they all fail (or so I think):

  1. Using unetbootin's FreeDOS 1.0 image I get to an error saying it couldn't run drivers then I get to a command line on disk A:. I assumed a dead end.

  2. Using unetbootin but with the FreeDOS 1.1 version image downloaded directly: get an error of "bad or missing command interpreter". I looked online and the solutions didn't work either.

So, is there an alternative to FreeDOS or to installing a BIOS that I could use?

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