Asus G73jh - Bd-prochot - Bios Mod

Did you verify the MD5 sum after you downloaded it?

Are you SURE of your model number as well?

 

Have a look at this post on the ROG. I can also confirm this. I had my EPROM removed and put on a reader and it had a 4MB file In addition 2 the 2.5 .203.

Asus G74Sx Bios Brick after update

 

I'd need to dump my G73JW BIOS to check when I get it back, I believe the full BIOS is 4096KB, the 1st 2048KB is either empty or that part that isn't flashed by the Ezflash.

 

Ok cool, good to know.

 

omg it was me , who explained the problem to that guy.
finally he sent his laptop for repair , I guess his problem has been solved with rma.
my user name was evga , i couldnt make a name as evgasr2 because it was already taken.

 

Positive it is for my laptop as I have flashed it.

When I go to flash yours, it said it was invalid.

Corrupted somehow?

 

You need to STOP what you are doing.

Read my previous response.

 

I haven't done anything. Using the Bios provided by asus 207 I flashed from 206 which is what it was purchased with... I don't understand the issue with that.

I was unable to test the unlocked bios you had provided due to an error that told me the bios was not valid. Your unlocked one.

Even if I wanted to flash the unlocked one you provided, it would not allow me.

So there is no way to stop if I haven't started.

 

You're still not reading so I will ask again:

Did you check the MD5 Sum? Did it match or not? Yes or no? LOL

And when you are flashing within Windows are you launching the Flash program with the /nodate option as described in the first post?

 

If "Run" isn't working for you when you run the command, locate the .exe of the win flash program and drop it in the run box, then add the /nodate.

 

^^ Agreed. Also I downloaded that file again and verified the MD5 Sum and it matches. The file is about 6MB in size. The original BIOS is the same.

I just cant 100% test it as I dont have that laptop.

 

I checked the MD5 to be safe. I am a dirty flasher kind of guy, but Wolf's experience halted me from doing that haha.

 

Please no pics of your dirty flashing .

Yeah I know what you mean. Well I guess my next mod is the 6990m... let the reading begin.... uuggghhhh

 

what mod on 6990m ?

 

Just replacing the 5870m.

 

Wow this is interesting stuff!! Great work man!

I have a diff problem. My battery has been dead for some time and I am using the laptop without it and always plugged in. Also when I restart or turn on it takes a lot of time to get past POST(i think) same as when you make changes in your bios and you start afterwards it takes some time. I hope it made sense...

My question is if I flash this bios using winflash will it be fine? I have checked the MD5 and it is correct. Just not sure to flash or not...

 

Hello, can in the VBIOS GTX680m/HD7970m ASUSG75 Bios insert a 7970mVbios (clevo) I've successfully integrated in the BIOS of the G75, G75 recognizes the possible HD7970m or GTX680m? , Fend great if there's answer to my question,
G75 I think seher good design, hardware are no-go (660/670m)
I use MS translated,
Thank you.

 

dude I inserted a clevo hd 5870m vbios into my bios replacing the asus stock vbios , even though I replace it nothing changes , even the cpu-z shows the vga as Asus , I guess there is something else to edit to make it correctly work,
but somtimes replacing hd 7970m vbios in bios will work.

 

can operate the 7970m will work in the G75?

 

I cant understand what you tell ,
do you have a clevo hd 7970m with you?

 

I thought they were the same when checking with one application. I checked with a different application and they are NOT. Dirty flashing may not be the best option .

728ff5f85724f3847e6e2d54c1605f68 G75VWAS.207 original

74335911f2aaf1eb9507f91930a662ee G75VWAS.207 end

 

No I have not a hardware, I am concerned only with the software when I ran was then holle swap on my G75 and 7970m or GTX680m, whichever occurs first, conversion is not problemm

 

how did you take the gpu-z screen shot with your asus bios ?

 

this is just as, for example, to my opinion when I integrated the VBIOS for 7970 into Asus bios is the Asus Clevo GPU detect gpu as Clevo, Asus G75 BIOS has two nVidia VBIOS, leading to system detects the GPU when I integrate into the bios Clevo 7970 VBIOS then the system should also recognize Clevo GPU without Fleschen to EC?,



and to do all the work iGPU be active, an attempt has iGPU activate?

 

how do you know that clevo gpu is detected as clevo did you test it ?
and I did the same but it still doesnt detect as clevo.

 

74335911f2aaf1eb9507f91930a662ee matches the one you downloaded. NO, it's not supposed to match the original. *facepalm*. You are very confused. Please read the whole thread.

Also have you tried flashing with Winflash using the /nodate option? This needs to be done.

Please post a screen shot of what Winflash shows.

 

With /nodate option.

http://www.tiikoni.com/tis?862bddc

 

You have other issues outside of what is going on here. The flashing program can't even detect what bios you are currently running.

 

No... It can and it has no error flashing the one you had originally as shown here..

If I download the same file from the Asus website you did I get this..

Image View - TIS

If I use the modified one I get the error displayed previous.

Winflash can identify my bios. It finds your modified one to be invalid.

thank you,

 

Alright, i'll do up another one and upload it.

 

EVGA! Nice to see you again. Yes I got it fixed. You were right, the chip from the Netherlans did not work. I ended up having to send it to Asus. I was backed into a corner. Hope everything is wel with ya. Thanks again for all your help.

Scott. Hey I have another request for the G74sx. The ram addition as well as GPU fan. What program are you useing to do this? Again thanks for all your work. I am sure a lot of people on here feel the same.
Thanks

 

read my post I have the complete bios for asus g53sw Asus G53SW Bios Reset - BTOforums.com

 

Not sure what your point is with this post? In my post it links to the same page you linked to.

By the way its "CPU Flex Ratio Override"

 

I'm having problems with the modded 53SW bios.
I connected a broken mini PCIe SSD via USB and set it as boot priority #1 in the bios. The laptop now turns on, the LEDs for the HDDs light up, the keyboard lights go on and the drives start working for a sec. Then the drives stop, the keyboard lights go off and it stays like this forever. The screen is off all the time. When I plug in a USB stick it just blinks once and turns off. Taking out the bios battery didn't help yet. I unplugged the laptop while I worked my way through to the biosbattery. After 1 hour without bios battery and everything unplugged nothing changed... Plugging or unplugging the SSD... pressed all buttons on startup... nothing helps.
What could have damaged the bios?? I didn't change anything else but the boot priority.
I don't think it happened because the bios is modded but who knows, so I post it here.
Is there a chance to reflash the bios?
zxTheWolfxz, how is your laptop? Were you successful reviving it yet?

 

Just installed the rev 213 version 5 on my G73jh. Using the new options in the bios I tried to limit my cores to 2, disable HT, and disable turbo boost. Windows 7 task manager and cpu-z seem to indicate however that I still have 8 threads running. Does anyone know why this is?

BTW turbo boost monitor inidicates that turbo-boost is off
Still, Task manager should only show 2 cores not 8 cores.

 

some features dont work even though we adjust the bios.

 

hy I've a G53sw 203
thanks for you biosmod

I'd like to alter dmi table and DSDT/SSDt
I've amibcp and recent tools to extract and replace.. but the resulting is the same before the mod
what chaintool do you use?

thanks
ugo

 

Props to scottdrmeyers. I flashed the BIOS on my G73JH and it opens up a whole new world. Now I'm seriously considering upgrading the CPU 920XM and GPU 7970m soon. Thanks

 

anyone know if the g74 modified bios are safe to flash or any things to avoid while doing so?

 

It's always a risk flashing your BIOS. The best way to do it is use a thumb drive formatted to FAT32 and use ASUS ezflash utility in the BIOS. DO NOT use NTFS format as you will likely brick your laptop. Make sure you have your AC adapter plugged in as well.

 

My CPu is still locked at 931 mhz !!
I flashed the v5 on my G73jh using Asus winflash then I disabled BD Prochot but the CPu is still locked at 931 mhz. Did I miss something ?!

Edit: CPU is unlocked after using throttlestop

 

I found for me its better to disable C states, for me & the G53SW it gives me x26 or 2.6Ghz all the time.
I can then control the speed from within W7 with Throttle Stop. I left BD Prochot enabled. Enabled or disabled
didn't really make any difference when C states are disabled.

I load tested with 8 TH and found x24 to be the max multiplier I would want to run under full load, hitting 80c @ x24 or 2.4Ghz.
Its my personal preference since I'm old school and like to see my Cpu run at full seed all the time.
Only draw back I saw was you have to set the multiplier in TS, save and exit and reopen TS for the multiplier change to take effect.

With C states disabled at cold boot or reboot the multiplier is always set to x26 auto. If you want the OS to start at a given multiplier
you can set throttle stop to the multiplier you wish set, save it and add throttle stop to the start menu so its loaded at start up of the OS.

If used as above I would stress test at each multiplier to find what is the safe temperature you would like to see your cpu ran at.
With my setup at x26 I was hitting 85c or more under full load 4 cores 8 TH. Now gaming I could probably run x26 since no games
to date take full use of all cores and the temps would be lower while playing games.

Still doing some testing, if I find anything else useful I report back.

Edit: Ran all 3 benchmark test of Just Cause 2 back to back @ 2.6Ghz seen max CPU temp of 66c & max 76c on the GPU.
Less temps on both while playing Quake3 or running the bench demo of Q3.

 

hi, does it work on G73SW model (pretty similar to G53SW)?

 

Any chance on a modified G53JW BIOS? It's at 211 on the ASUS downloads page.

 

Shame there isnt one for the g60vx :<

 

Apologies, I went through the thread and found what I needed.

Thanks and great job!


Actually, no. The link is down. Also, is the version 1 of the G53SW include the improvements in the G73 bios?

 

Yes to my knowledge it does. Everything is unlocked.
FileSwap.com : G53SWAS.zip download free
Be sure to only use a fats formatted device to store the file on & flash from there.
Such as a USB flash drive formatted with fats/fats32. You can use the in bios flash utility to update with ease.
Just located the stored file on the USB drive the program will do the rest.
DO NOT put it on your hard drive & flash from there. Most HDD are NTFS format & none of the flash programs like NTFS
windows flash utility or the bios one. You will end up with a bricked laptop if you use a device that is NTFS formatted to store the file on & flash from.
Use at your own risk, see first post for warnings.

 

Thanks TheWolf!

I downloaded your file and the Md5 matched up and everything.

I haven't flashed my 53sw yet as I have a test coming up next week and couldn't do well with a bricked laptop.
With the Winflash utility provided from the Asus website, do I just point it to the BIOS file on a FAT formatted usb drive?

Also, does this BIOS unlock allow me to modify CPU voltages or just frequencies?

Thanks again.

Edit: Specifically, I was hoping I could undervolt my 2630QM or disable two cores in order to increase battery life, but restore the defaults when on AC power.

 

No it will not allow CPU voltages tweaks or adjustment to frequencies.
You can disable cores. You should really read thew the whole thread if you haven't
as there are some thing that are unlocked that you should not make any changes to.
Here is a pic where I dropped to 3 core 6 TH:
2 cores 4 TH:

 

wanted to ask a few questions before jumping in and flashing.

Would you mind telling me what you did to allow core disabling?

Did you gain any battery life increases? Also, is this controlled through ThrottleStop, or do changes in core enabling require a reboot?

Thanks