EeePC 1000H BIOS update

Posted by Mike on 29 January 2010 Leave a comment (7) Go to comments

I was upgrading BIOS on my ASUS EeePC 1000H today and was surprised to find how many users are asking the same question in so many forums – How to upgrade BIOS on 1000H?

Surprisingly, it’s dead easy. This is what you need to do.

Go to Asus website, click on Downloads and select your hardware from the list, then select your operating system. The operating system is not important when it comes to BIOS updates, but this option will give you a list of all drivers for your PC and your OS, so you can download them as well if you need any.

Once you’ve downloaded the bios update file, unzip it and rename it to 1000H.ROM and copy the file to a CD/DVD or to a USB drive.

Needless to say, plug in the power adapter, you definitely don’t want to lose power while upgrading BIOS.

Plug in the USB drive or an external CD/DVD drive with a disk containing 1000.ROM file and reboot. When you see the EeePC setup screen (grey) that prompts you to press F2 if you want to enter setup, press Alt+F2.

The setup will scan any attached storage devices for the .ROM file and once it’s found it will start the upgrade process. The upgrade takes about 2-3 minutes and at the end you’re asked to press the power button to restart the computer.

That’s it, as easy as it gets.

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7 Comments.

mark 3 April 2011 at 21:16

thanks for the tip. “Alt+F2″ small piece of info but very important :)
Siddharth 27 April 2011 at 15:02

I didnt do me. I tried all the above mentioned points. If did find the USB drive on which i loaded 1000H.rom file for eeepc 1000H . The message of reading 1000H.rom file comes and then nothing happens. I have used USB drive with FAT 32 format.

Please help
TC 19 May 2011 at 05:50

Thank you – this worked great!
emon 3 June 2011 at 15:36

FORMAT THE USB DRIVE WITH FAT16 OR FAT, NOT FAT 32, USE HP USB FLASH UTILITY
rappi 22 November 2011 at 03:42

thanks emon, using FAT worked!
I got stuck at “Reading file “1000H.ROM” ” but now it works quiet well !
the Wall 6 March 2012 at 18:23

Good job.
Thanks u so much!

Really helpful. I’ve just installed Win8 CP x86 on my EeePC 1000H.
This tip help me active Wifi connection :)
Yu 2 May 2012 at 20:32

thnx this helped me a lot
if you go to asus and select the win7 2 bit driver and there bios.. you will find a oem slic2.1 one
the usb stick must be seen as a removable storage and must not be greater then 2 GB and formatted in fat
making a little partition on a 8gb doesnt work nor does anything else.