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    G73JH BIOS 209 Update: Thumb Drive Format

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Kalim, Jun 7, 2010.

  1. Kalim

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    Hi,

    For those of you that have updated your G73JH BIOS to 209, what format was on your thumb drive and did it succeed?
     
    Kalim, Jun 7, 2010
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  2. panzer06

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    FAT32 / Success
     
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  3. Kalim

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    Can you tell that I'm a poll newbie? That's a rhetorical question. :D
     
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    Success with FAT.
     
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  5. Yuxi

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    If this is irrelevant, please disregard - I had the file on my hard drive (NTFS) and it worked fine.
     
    Yuxi, Jun 7, 2010
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    can the capacity of a thumb drive affect the success of the flash?
     
    dark_nerd, Jun 7, 2010
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    FAT32 Bootable 8G Flash drive = success
     
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  8. Kalim

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    No, it's not irrelevant at all. A successful update from a NTFS hard drive shows that even with what's considered to be the less desirable method, that the update can succeed. I think that NTFS isn't as poisonous as I first thought. Which leads to other possibilities such as a bad extraction or copy of the file.

    While I'm thankful for those that have taken the time to answer the poll, I wish more people who had a failed update would have contributed. Of course, it's understandable if the laptop was their only computer.

    For the record; I used a Patriot 4GB Xporter thumb drive formatted with FAT and the BIOS update succeeded.
     
    Kalim, Jun 8, 2010
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    FAT32 with 4 GB Thumb Drive = Win
     
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    I used FAT and the BIOS update succeeded with a 1gb stick. I went from a 206 bios.
     
    shoe3k, Jun 8, 2010
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    I wondered about this as well. I made sure to use a FAT-partitioned drive and was successful.

    edit: from the 206 BIOS.
     
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    Is everyone also flashing while on AC power?
     
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  14. Kalim

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    The AC was filtered and battery was installed.
     
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    All my Bios updates were done from windows using Asus WinFlash (pre-installed) with no problems.
     
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    Used a FAT formatted flash drive and updated with EZ Flash. Success
     
    smoothvirus, Jun 10, 2010
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