Do it!Īfter you went through this, once you boot Windows it will stop displaying the error message and it will allow you to install the ASUS Update utility. When it's done, it will instruct you to reboot. In my case, these took less than 5 minutes. EZ Flash will then read the file and perform a bunch of operations.
If it finds the file with the name it's expecting, it will say so. Otherwise it will keep on an infinite loop looking for itġ2. If it finds the pendrive, it will say so. On the initial screen, press ALT+F2 to run the EZ Flash utilityġ1. Make sure you have your power adapter plugged in (because you really don't want to run out of battery in the middle of a BIOS update)ġ0. Make sure the USB drive is connected to one of the netbook's USB ports (prior to turning it on)Ĩ. In my case, I had to rename it to 1000HE.ROMħ. You don't need to do incremental steps you can go directly for the latest version (which is the highest numbered update (in my case, it was version 1104))ĥ. Download the latest BIOS version for your netbook from the ASUS website. Quick format is turned on by default and should work just fineģ. You can do this by going to Windows Explorer, right clicking on your USB drive, selecting Format and choosing FAT. Do not use FAT32 otherwise the EZ Flash utility will freeze (specifically, it hangs saying that it's reading the file). Format the USB drive using the FAT filesystem (aka FAT16). It can be quite small, you will need less than 1MB in itĢ. I had to search for hours and try multiple different things until I arrived at the following (reasonably simple) solution.ġ. On hardware platforms that have an ACPI BIOS, the HAL causes Acpi.sys to be loaded during system startup at the base of the device tree. The responsibilities of Acpi.sys include support for power management and Plug and Play (PnP) device enumeration. There are other ways of flashing your BIOS, but they are poorly documented. The Windows ACPI driver, Acpi.sys, is an inbox component of the Windows operating system. However, the easiest way to update the BIOS would be by running ASUS Update. The error message after login is caused by the same reason. It turns out that ASUS Update doesn't want to be installed because the BIOS version doesn't match its requirements. The fact that ASUS Update refuses to install is unfortunate in fact, it seems ASUS created a chicken-and-egg problem. The symptom one would typically experience after installing the other three utilities and restarting the system is a mysterious error message popping up after logon saying "ASUS ACPI service Can't get WMI ASUSManagement Object".
The latter installer refuses to run and quits with a confusing error message: "WARNING ASUSUpdate only support Eee PC Product and please install the ASUS ACPI Driver First". I did download and install the "Hotkey Service Utility" (under ATK), the "Touchpad Driver" (under Touchpad) plus the "ASUS Instant Key Utility" and "ASUS Update Utility" (both under Utilities).
Windows 7 installation picked up most things by itself (Video, LAN, Audio), so I didn't bother to get specific drivers for them. Just type the model name on the upper left hand search box, fill in the model name (in my case, "1000HE"), select the OS and it will show you links for a bunch of things. If you go to the ASUS download page, you can easily enough find and download drivers for your EeePC netbook. It took me 4 hours! So I decided to try to save people's time by posting a how-to. I naively assumed that fixing it would be a simple task. Five minutes after I proudly handed it over to her, considering my task done, she noticed that the special function keys (the overloaded Fn keys that one can use for various tasks such as increasing, decreasing or muting the system volume, changing brightness, etc) were not working.
I recently installed Windows 7 on my wife's netbook, an ASUS EeePC 1000HE (if you landed here looking for instructions on how to do it, see for instance this guide). Please click the White Kudos star. Select the Browse my computer for driver Select the above driver folder (after unzipped). Go to Device Manager, select the missing device needing driver above.
If ASUS does not support Windows 10 for your PC model, you can try downloading drivers for Windows 8 or Windows 7, which are always compatible for Windows 10.