Atiflash error trying to update vbios need help g73jh.

Hey Haven't been in here in quite sometime came through to see if anyone could please help me out with a problem that occurred today playing Bioshock?, Well through the beginning of the game I was doing fine all of a sudden I saw a BSOD I thought nothing of it since all it did in the begging was reboot itself, once the laptop rebooted for some reason my ATI drivers wasn't functioning (safe mode) status, like it has got corrupted somehow. Well I went ahead and updated my BIOS from 211 to 213. I also downloaded chastity's VBIOS od2.rom I followed all the directions to a ''T'' when trying to flash I had received a error ATIFLASH -P O -F Fix_od2.rom adapter not found Error 0FL01 press 1 to continue? Can someone please explain to me what in the world is going on?

 

No image on screen ? the error should mean that the bios is messed up on the GPU. If you flashed the wrong bios for instance . You might have dead GPU on your hands.
213 bios should have been enought to keep bioshock from a BSOD. Have been running it and OC with no problems.

Lets start by do you get image ? If so then i would try to flash the 213 again. Just to rule out a problem with the bios. Are you 100% sure that you did everything as in chastitys instructions ?

USB stick was FAT format ?

 

I Had the old Bios 211 at the time I was playing Bioshock, I Cant recall the version of the ATI drivers I used but it was a modded version. When I recieved the BSOD that is when I decided to update the BIOS and VBIOS. This is my only computer at the moment, and yes I get a Image. The catalyst driver is not working, what I have is the VGA drivers from Microsoft at the moment.

Hmmmm I thought the format of the flash drive had to be FAT-32?

So what your saying is try to flash the BIOS again? I currently updated it last night to BIOS 213.

 

Well the bios actually has the vbios in it anyway. One of the bios updates changed fan trip points for the GPU. I would go with the 213 bios for now just to rule out that the GPU is faulty. Fat or fat 32 is the format to use. Might try to update the bios and then use driver sweeper to delete all the AMD files and then do a reinstall from the AMD site. Might get the installer before using driver sweeper

 

Yes I tried all that you have stated, I removed all the AMD drivers plus catalyst I updated to 213 last night so I am going to try all the above again. If it doesn't work I'll be stuck behind a brick wall again. ATIFLASH -P O -F Fix_od2.rom adapter not found Error 0FL01 I tried googling the problem but came up short with no answer to available. What happen to chastity all her programs she had up are gone she disappeared, kind of sad she was the backbone here for Asus tweaks. Thanks I'll be back to report today to notify of any changes.

 

I'm still here with the same issue as before. If anyone have any ideas please come forward I appreciate it.

 

OK

So you did the bootable USB stick (fat 32 format)
But the 213 bios on there. Then restarted and navigated in bios to easyflash ? Did the bios flash to 213 and then rebooted to windows to reinstall all the drivers (from AMD-s site not asus )? After that you still get BSOD and safe mode for ati drivers ?

Does software like HWinfo64 find the GPU and is able to read all data form sensor normaly ?
The error itself indicates that it was not able to find the GPU meening that a forced flash or bios chip replacment is needed (on the GPU)

quick google on "adapter not found Error 0FL01 I" at least gives that information. Strange is that you are able to still use the GPU. That error usualy indicates that the GPU-s bios is damaged and a reflash via using a nother GPU to get into windows is needed.

Hmm odd. Have you done a coms reset just to make sure that it is not a anomaly ?

Cant remember if the 211 bios was known for BSOD. the 209 bas a horror for me BSOD all the time. Also might also thy the drain method. Remove power, battery and coms battery and let it drain for 5 min or so then try again.
I think Chastity is still here but is not on that often.

You might try a stock vbios flas to if the GPU for some unknown reason does not what that. If you dont have a stock vbios i can make a copy of my stock vbios after work.

 

Is this a 0 (null)?
It should be, because it's the position of the adapter. If you would have 2 cards (Crossfire), then you could flash both cards specifying the right index.
The command should be
ATIFLASH -p 0 -f Fix_od2.rom

 

Lol i feel like a dummkopf now Did not notice the O in the command. If it was a O as you have typed and not a 0 then that would give the error.

 

Thank you for the response. I have a day off work today, I basically stood up all night trying to figure this out. I still haven't a clue on what is going on. Like I stated I was playing Bioshock for maybe 20 min my computer just shut down with BSOD I didn't even have a chance to write down or take a picture of the screen laptop just rebooted on it's own. I figured the reason why I got BSOD is because my BIOS and VBIOS needs to be updated to play the game so that is what exactly I tried to do I had success updating my BIOS, But not the VBIOS. tried different methods of searching for the card using all the commands possible I still got a no adapter found. Yes I typed everything in correctly that was a typo I apologize. Here is a screenshot of gpu-z. I am running drivers from Microsoft I tried overriding the driver I get a message stating ''Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it''

Hey I appreciate it if you can supply me with the stock BIOS I downloaded 213 from Asus formatted pen-drive fat32 popped the BIOS in and flashed Ez Flash

Yes I typed it in correctly it was a mistype on my behalf. Thanks

I almost forgot to mention I also tried the unlockrom 0 method I also tried 1 when 0 failed to no available.

 

If i were you i would call a exorcist and lock the G73 in a safe until he arrives. Looks like you got what i like to call a zombie or a ghost GPU. Its no alive and is not dead.

Its like the GPU has a messed up bios but as you know with the G73jh if the vbios gets messed up its dead. Sad part is you might not be able to flash a stock vbios on it as the GPU is not recognised by the mobo. You would have to remove the bios chip to flash it. Can remember the link but there was a guid on how to force flash a bios on a GPU after a bad flash. Ill edit it after i find it for you.
Odd is that some information is shown on the GPU

This is my gpu:


Its like you whipped the GPU-s bios and left a blank bios on it :S

A nother thing that comes to mind is maybe the GPU is not the fault and the problem is on the mobos side. Have you done any repaste ? or taken the machine apart ?

Here is my vbios. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ciy9wk3wf6hb9ed/Broadway.rom I put it in my dropbox

You might start to think about getting a new GPU or at least maybe someone you know can let you test their GPU ?
If you are good with a soldering iron i can send you one of my old asus 5870m GPU that got heat damage to the core. Not working but the bios chip should be ok.


Edit:Here you go svl7 is to thank for this guide: http://www.techinferno.com/2011/07/09/recovering-a-notebook-gpu-from-a-bad-flash/

What you might want to try too is get the latest chipset update. Then try and download AMD-s installer for your GPU (You can try the old driver on ASUS support page as its a full install file). It might help as some notebooks with integraded and standard GPU have got the GPU to be detected again.

Best of luck

 

Yes I have done a repaste around November, it's not the first time I have done a repaste. I just took the unit apart repasted took the card out and replaced it back into the slot, took the small battery out that sits on the mother board. this is what I get now from GPU-Z




I also went back to BIOS 211 tried flashing Chastity VBIOS but nothing i still get no adapter in 0 tried 1 also same thing?

slowly but surely things are starting to look a bit better, hopefully someone with knowledge can chime in.

Wanted to know if the version I have in my vbios is the same version of chastity's version?

I went back to flash and everything seems like it's working I'm wondering if it was BIOS 213 that caused me to have this error?

Can someone supply me with a copy of BIOS 213 please. I don't want to download the one from Asus I'm afraid to corrupt my system again.

 

Its the same old bios as it has been. I got my second machine with bios 209 and did the update to 213 via easyflash form bios and is working

 

Did you flash the VBIOS with chastity's VBIOS? if so do you have the version number? Hmm it's weird what happened i guess what ever I did made the card work again.

 

Nop do not have Chastitys vbios. Have ...by the looks if it a stock but older vbios then you. Have not moded it so far as it OC nicely.

Yes it is strange. So with 211 no problem ? but with 213 show standard VGA and does not allow to flash ?
You could make a copy of your vbios and then try my stock older vbios and then try to go 213 if there is a compatibility issue with bios 213 and the vbios you have.


Could you not just use Radeon bios editor (RBE) to ID what version chastitys vbios is ? load the vbios and should show that version number it has.

Edit: Is it the chastitys OD fix bios ? if so then RBE reads 012.020.000.032.038352 as you have right now, but mind you that no matter what the bios if it is for the same model and make then you should not have any issues. Even if it is the same vbios.

Might have a go on the vbios update too on the weekend if you think the problem is from the chastitys vbios.

 

Sorry I couldn't sign in since My computer wasn't working properly seems that I am getting bsod I flashed back to 211 then back to 213 and also flashed chastitys vbios same thing still getting bsod I tried numerous drivers from 10.10 all the way up to 13. 1 and none seem to work properly for some reason, this is very frustrating I think I'm going to reformat to windows 8 have that a go. Do you by any chance have all the updated drivers for our asus with out the bloat ware?