[SOLVED] Asus bios flashback button

[xtrips]

Hello,

i could only find partial info about that.
The manual says that I need to shutdown the pc, insert the flash drive and then press the flashback button for 3 seconds. A led near the button, should give an indication about what is going on. But the led stays dark and I get no reaction at all. My question is does the motherboard and thus the led reacts only if it sees a properly configured flash drive? Or does it always react even if it is to signal an error that the flash drive is improperly configured?

 

[Lutfij]

We can assume that you're asking about an Asus motherboard but you forgot to mention which board out of Asus portfolio you're looking at. For the sake of relevance to this thread, please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

 

[xtrips]

We can assume that you're asking about an Asus motherboard but you forgot to mention which board out of Asus portfolio you're looking at. For the sake of relevance to this thread, please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

ASUS WS C246M PRO

 

[SkyNetRising]

ASUS WS C246M PRO

Flash drive has to be formatted in FAT32.
Bios file has to be extracted and renamed appropriately and copied onto flash drive.
Flash drive has to be inserted into a specific USB port (not any port).

[Motherboard] How to use USB BIOS FlashBack™? | Official Support | ASUS Global

 

[xtrips]

Flash drive has to be formatted in FAT32.
Bios file has to be extracted and renamed appropriately and copied onto flash drive.
Flash drive has to be inserted into a specific USB port (not any port).

[Motherboard] How to use USB BIOS FlashBack™? | Official Support | ASUS Global

Thank you but this is all in the manual. But what happens when pressing the button doesn’t bring any reaction at all? Does that mean it is broken? Maybe it was disabled in the bios before?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Does that mean it is broken?

That means - something has not been done correctly.

 

[xtrips]

Maybe but there is little chance to that. I tried different flash drives, fat16, fat32, ntfs, cleaning with diskpart, made sure it was one partition, everything I read about it watched on yt. So there must be a reason within the bios.
Until now no one have been able to tell me if inserting a flash drive in the right usb slot and following the procedure with the button will light the fallback led no matter what. Only evasive answer like in the manual.

 

[Zerk2012]

Maybe but there is little chance to that. I tried different flash drives, fat16, fat32, ntfs, cleaning with diskpart, made sure it was one partition, everything I read about it watched on yt. So there must be a reason within the bios.
Until now no one have been able to tell me if inserting a flash drive in the right usb slot and following the procedure with the button will light the fallback led no matter what. Only evasive answer like in the manual.

You have to do all these steps correctly for it to work. To the best of my knowledge you can't just test the button you need to do everything correct the flashing light is saying it's working EDIT Updating.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPyElZcsW6o

 

[xtrips]

Yep
Did exactly that.
I’ll keep looking
Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

Until now no one have been able to tell me if inserting a flash drive in the right usb slot and following the procedure with the button will light the fallback led no matter what. Only evasive answer like in the manual.

Does your system show any activity, if you press power button? May be something has not been connected properly.

What cpu are you trying to use? May be it's not compatible with the motherboard.