Asus M5A78L-M-USB3 BIOS

BIOS .rar 795 KB Shared

BIOS image for the ASUS M5A78L-M-USB3, a micro-ATX desktop motherboard for AMD processors, in a small 795 KB rar. The name gives no version number, so look at the file inside to identify it. A technician typically writes such an image to the socketed or soldered SPI chip with a programmer when the board fails to POST after a bad update. Read and keep the original chip contents first, and make sure the image size matches the flash capacity, otherwise the write will fail or the board will not start.

The button opens the matching file on RM Schematics, or a source page if it is not catalogued there yet. The original attachment is from @biosarchive. Enginerys does not host this file.

How to open a .rar file

Compressed archive — the usual wrapper for a schematic + boardview pair or a BIOS + EC set.

7-ZipWinRARThe Unarchiver (macOS)

More about .rar files

Back up your own chip before writing any dump, and match the full board number and revision. Flashing guide →

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