How to safely and effectively refresh the bios at my Asus Eee PC 1001HA?

[James Michael Fultz]

* Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> [2010-04-04 20:11 +0200]:
> Dear forum members
> 
> So far, my attempts to "flash"/ refresh the bios of my netbook failed.
> My netbook is an Asus Eee PC 1001HA, with a dual boot configuration:
> Kubuntu 9.10 netbook remix and Win7. I tried 3 methods proposed by
> Asus:
> at the Windows partition, via some special bios update tool;
> with MS-DOS or Freedos at bootable CD's and USB sticks, in combination
> with the latest version of the so-called 'afudos' utility;
> with "EZ flash", also together with a bootable USB or CD.
> None of the 3 methods has worked so far in my case.
> Does anybody have experience with any method which effectively helps
> to refresh the bios of some Asus Eee PC?

The following instructions appear to be the easiest platform independent
means of updating the firmware on an Eee PC.

<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UpgradeBIOS>