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    Bad bios update. Help please

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by astrachan, Oct 19, 2011.

  1. astrachan

    astrachan Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have just formatted my g73jw and installed Windows 7 premium.
    Next thing I updated my BIOS with f4 on the asus startup thing using the 205 bios driver.
    It said it didnt recognize the file version but I foolishly kept going.
    It erased the old bios and rewrote.
    Now the computer turned off and it doesnt turn on.
    I downloaded the bios from asus website.
    Please help me out this is really frustrating.
     
    astrachan, Oct 19, 2011
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  2. Support.4@XOTIC PC

    Support.4@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    With an issue like that you are likely going to need to RMA the machine. I would recommend contacting your reseller and they should be able to get something set up for you.
     
    Support.4@XOTIC PC, Oct 19, 2011
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  3. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    or contact 1-888-678-3688 for rma
     
    Chastity, Oct 20, 2011
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  4. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    I also bricked lappy by bad bios flash but if my lappy told me smth like BIOS is not recognized I would NOT do it for sure.

    Looks like you downloaded it not using special download tool, correct?

    Anyway I suppose that you downloaded file very badly.

    You can try to search for BIOS recovery in google.

    Does it at least turn any lights when you press Power button? Is fan working at all?

    If so then you need a 2GB FAT or FAT32 flash drive to recover it.
     
    James D, Oct 20, 2011
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  5. astrachan

    astrachan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nothing turns on. Appears dead
     
    astrachan, Oct 20, 2011
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  6. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    Try to unplug, put any USB pendrive with LED indicator, push ctrl + home. holding them press power/ Tell me if anything lights now
     
    James D, Oct 20, 2011
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  7. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Hmmm you can try the old tricks like remove the battery and AC power discharging by holding the power putton for 20 seconds then put it all back together.

    Or you can reset the CMOS battery which is located on the underside of the mobo.

    Or a blind flash with a newly created flash drive with the BIOS files properly placed on it.

    But at the end of the day these do not always work and an RMA will fix the ROM problem for you.
     
    Yiddo, Oct 20, 2011
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  8. Zymphad

    Zymphad Zymphad

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    Yes your laptop is bricked. You have to return it. For some reason when the EZFlash doesn't recognize a Bios, it's an automatic brick even though if you used WinFlash in Windows with the same bios, it works.

    Just in the future, anytime you are flashing a bios or a firmware and it says not recognized, do not force it.
     
    Zymphad, Oct 20, 2011
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  9. sirIsaacNewbton

    sirIsaacNewbton Notebook Consultant

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    don't all mobo's come with a copy of the original BIOS that cannot be overwritten at all?
     
    sirIsaacNewbton, Oct 23, 2011
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  10. simply anonymous

    simply anonymous Notebook Geek

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    sirIsaacNewbton, Nope I guess they call it a rom bios for a good reason.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_BIOS

    I remember a virus in the late 90's that would cook a bios chip. if you got it you had to send your board back to asus to get it fixed.
     
    simply anonymous, Oct 23, 2011
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  11. tijo

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    Nope, as far as i know, only high end motherboards come with backup bios, often in the form of a second bios chip.
     
    tijo, Oct 23, 2011
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