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    Bricked G73jh updating BIOS from 211 to 213

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by nogueirn, Mar 9, 2013.

  1. nogueirn

    nogueirn Newbie

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    Yeah, I know I shoulda formatted my drive to Fat32 and all that jazz, and I feel like an idiot for not doing more research prior to trying to flash a BIOS, so that's my fault. I was hoping if there was any way to fix this issue without having to RMA it, as my warranty ran out a few months ago. Now my computer turns on, and the windows logo appears and loads, a few seconds later an error message comes up and says something on the lines of "We have discovered an inconvenience on your computer. We will detect the error then restart" or something like that. Now it restarts, and just goes on a loop with that same message over and over again. I tried to reset the CMOS setting on the bottom of the laptop, with the battery and AC adapter unplugged, as to no avail. Maybe I didn't hold it long enough? I only held it for about 15 seconds. I was planning on doing the steps from these 2 posts here:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...jh-bst7-bios-crisis-recovery.html#post8362578
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...861-asus-g73jh-bios-recovery.html#post8452651
    But I didn't want to do it before i received a little more help. Would anyone have any advice?
     
    nogueirn, Mar 9, 2013
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  2. blaydes99

    blaydes99 Notebook Consultant

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    If your Windows OS at least tries to load, you don't have a bricked machine. Something most likely changed enough in your configuration to mess up windows. I recommend the following: repeatedly tap F8 before Windows loads and try "Last known good configuration". If that doesn't work, do it again and pick "Safe Mode".

    Last resort, repair/reinstall Windows.
     
    blaydes99, Mar 9, 2013
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  3. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Your RAID/AHCI selection is likely the wrong way round.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 11, 2013
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    ikisat Notebook Geek

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    That's definitely not a bricked bios. When you brick the bios on a G73 they literally do nothing you don't even get a charging light when it's plugged in let alone the ability to turn it on in any manner. Windows isn't happy with something you did I would probably just re-install windows personally but I generally do that every few months for one reason or another anyways. Other than that my suggestion would be throwing the HDD into another laptop or computer and seeing if it boots up in that or if it does the same thing as that would confirm that windows is having some issue not the laptop. If it boots up fine in another system (minus the slew of errors you'll get about drivers loading and such once it's booted) then I would start trying other things.
     
    ikisat, Mar 12, 2013
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