BIOS Renamer for ASUS Motherboards

Cross-platform Rust implementation of ASUS' Windows-only BIOS renamer utility.

Purpose

Modern ASUS motherboards expect BIOS updates to have a specific name; however, ASUS uses more descriptive, but incompatible, file names in their official downloads. To resolve this, they also provide a small tool which will rename the file to match what the target motherboard expects.

Unfortunately, the official tool from ASUS is Windows-only. If, for example, the target motherboard is being used for a Linux server, and one’s other computers are Macs or Linux-based, then the official tool cannot be used to prepare BIOS updates.

That's where this tool comes in! Utilizing Rust and a platform-agnostic design, it can be built and ran on Windows, macOS, and Linux; providing the exact same functionality as the official tool regardless of OS.

Usage

Install Rust on Unix-like OSs: Linux, macOS, etc.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Confirm Rust is Installed

Once you install Rust, you will have the build toolchain. You can confirm that by running these commands.

cargo --version
cargo 1.66.0 (d65d197ad 2022-11-15)
rustc --version 
rustc 1.66.0 (69f9c33d7 2022-12-12)

Build Executable

Go to the root of this repo and run cargo build

cd biosrenamerfor_asus
cargo build

Using the BIOS renamer

From a File Manager (Windows, some Linux DEs)

Drag the BIOS file to be renamed onto the application icon. The application will automatically rename the file.

From a terminal (Windows, macOS, Linux)

• Navigate to the project directory
• Execute the program by running cargo run -- <BIOSFILE> where <BIOSFILE> is the path to the target file.
• The file will be renamed and can be found in the project directory. Run cargo run -- --help to find out how to control this behavior.