BIOS for asus g73jw

I switched my g73jw for a g750 a wile back, mostly 'cus the g73 was nothing but trouble even after sending it to asus 2 times.

But now it feals like a waste to just let i collect dust...
I cant really sell it as it's something wrong with it.

Anyway... Biggest fault with it was that it sometimes lock up compleatly in a "slight heart attack" kind of way where the screen freeze and the sound stuck on the exact note durring the freeze, kinda makes you fall out of the chair throwing your headset of while you try to hold the powerkey.

I kinda always blamed windows for this since i found a "workaround" to lower the "max cpu while pluged in" to 75-80%

But now i figured i'd install ubunt server on it and host a minecraft server, but yet again...problem... It doesn't freeze up as before that forces me to reeboote it. Only freeze spikes that solves themself out after maby 5-10 sec.

The only thing i havn't tested is to find a better BIOS. I have the latest asus published for the jw, the jh on the hand is way further on the BIOS front and also when it comes to fixes on this forum.
So my question here is:

Can i go with the jh guides here for bios/vbios (as of posting i'm not 100% sure what vbios is so might be a stupid question)

And to prevent some of the basic follo-ups i'w trashed the default "hybrid" hdd with an SSD after to many failures and also replaced the ram modules with spare ones i had laying ta home with no luck. Also installed temp monitoring software that told me the freezes could occur at any tems as low as to 30C.

I cannot reproduce the freezes at will. Not even by running stresstests that drowe my temt to above 90C+... Its just random.

 

If reducing CPU clock fixes it, my guess would be it's a power problem. Something like a short voltage droop that causes something in the system to become unstable. Reducing CPU clocks will reduce the power load on the whole system after all. Have you ever replaced the AC adapter?

Also, you said you tried different RAM. What about trying just one stick at a time? Though RAM problems usually cause BSODs.

 

Since ubuntu gives more freedom with the kernel (atleast that i know of ) i changed all the cores/threads to powersave instead of ondemand, the temp seems lower and i have yet not hade any more freezes

I might give the PSU a go though.... this is far from the best way to slve it

But still... the BIOS? does the jh version work on JW?

 

What about ASUS's site? I see BIOS files.
ROG - G73Jw - ASUS

 

Yes the good old 205 have that one, it came out about the same time i bought it. Solved nothing though :-(

 

I doubt your issue is BIOS related.

 

Does it happen on battery? Can you force the CPU to 100% and if it's ok then your brick might not be quite up to the task.

 

I can force it to 100%, both gpu and cpu. That wont make it freeze though. It's more random then that i guess i can have a look at the 750 brick and se if it's compatible just to give it a try

 

So long as the voltage and amp rating match (amps can be higher) along with the connector being the same then it should be fine.