Asus G73Jh Bios Recovery

Hello everyone ,
I just thought of making a thread to help people who brick their laptop when flashing bios.

Caution: Do This At Your Own Risk. :

OK LETS START
1.Get a flash drive
2.Make it bootable using HP tools and win98 files
3.Copy all files except the HP tools folder to your flash drive, from my attachment
4.Remove both harddrives on your Asus G73
5.Remove CD/DVD from optical drive
6.Press reset button found at bottom of the laptop
7.connect the ac adapter and flash drive | make sure no other usb's are connected
8.Power your laptop
9.wait for 3 - 5 min's
10.it will turn off itself after bios flash
11.remove the flash drive and wait for 10 seconds
12.power on your laptop
DONE

Now your laptop will be back to normal.

 

+1 for your effort. Always add a caution however to warn people of the risks of flashing. I just did what you said and power cables outside starting falling down and Independence Day began moments later.

True story.

 

Thanks mate, OP updated.

 

just got my brand new g74 today... had it 5 hours and bricked it with this bios lol...

what's odd is I used the same NTFS drive for flashing to the latest bios right before doing that... I'm not too thrilled.

NTFS worked the first time with OEM 203 bios, but failed on this one... sucks.

I guess i'll try to RMA it back to Newegg and if I can't do that then I'll be sending it back to ASUS

 

Sorry to hear about your bricking carsontl! Many (too many) have felt the
same pain. Definitely avoid NTFS formatted drives, when updating
the BIOS. Use the BIOS resident Easyflash utility, with a FAT32 formatted
USB flash drive. Yeah, you should be able to do a cross-ship with Newegg,
or do an RMA through Asus. If you don't have anything sensitive on the
drives, the Newegg approach might be the quickest. If you were working
with any of the non-standard BIOS images, you might want to avoid
mentioning that fact. Updating with an NTFS formatted drive is almost
always going to brick your laptop, whether it is an official update, or a
modified BIOS. The bug is 100% Asus's fault, but they may try to
make it your problem, if you know what I mean

Sir Robin

 

Yeah the laptop showed up and was dead on arrival! Dunno how that happened..

 

Need help, is this method work if i update bios from bios via NTFS HDD and now notebook not power on on power button? 1 More where can i find attachement files from post 1( 3rd point) to making flash??

 

in the 3rd point click attachment .
and if your laptop doesnt boot at all , I dont thinkt this would work.
thanks

 

When i bricked my g53sx it wouldn't power on, it was dead to the world. I'm surprised when the OP bricked their g73jh you can still get the computer to turn on.

Asus will replace the motherboard, they really need to hire someone that can reflash the board with a programmer. That sure would speed up RMA's and help cut costs.

 

not all the times it wouldnt power on .
sometimes it would. if it does then you can do this procedure and reflash the bios to working one.

 

so my g73 back to normal after efprom bios reprogramm

 

Great! !!!!!!

 

Tried this on my k53z (a53z according to some sources) and it does nothing, is it because I used to have to hit 'esc' at boot to boot from USB? I can't do anything to fix it now, guess lucky brother-in-law is Asus rep lol.

 

I got a problem like this one... On an ASUS G60JX...

At this time, evgasr2 is kindly helping me changing some e-mailswith information . I'll keep you informed about the progress.

I'm hoping to see my asus back to life again soon!

I know thats not the same notebook, but i believe it worth a try...


Thanks!

 

Hey i have bricked g73, what about when usb is not working ?

 

Sorry, don't get your hopes up.

Nobody has confirmed this as working. With a "bad flash" such as flashing from NTFS, the entire bootblock can be overwritten and there will be no way of entering a rescue mode.

 

Its work in Asus N56VZ (changing the file to the correct bios on this model, of course)?

 

does anyone know?

 

If you are in a bricked state then test yourself and report back.