G73JH bios chip replacement

Im having issues with my bios also, i recently purchased this laptop from a friend for $200 and it was working great until i updated the bios and now its not powering on at all and not even charger light, i tried removing the cmos battery and holding the power button and also holding the reset cmos/bios button on the bottom and to no avail.. I can get a new bios chip preprogrammed off ebay for $20 shipped..

Question is how hard would this be to remove the old and solder the new? Any recommendations on how to remove such small solder points? I have soldered many ac/power connections before but they have more room to work with..

Thanks..


MODEL: G73JH-RBBX05

 

do not buy replacement bios as they never work.
your bios must have id in it that matches your motherboard id.
each mobo has unique id, so making a replacement bios is practicaly impossible.
and you should read the posts before posting. sir robin explained tbhe recovery procedure very well.

 

Okay sorry, but i have read all his post and yours throughout all the pages on this thread and nothing worked.. (im not going to even dare try what you are doing with yours, cause i would end up messing something up)..

BIOS CHIP:ASUS G73JH | eBay

This is the chip i was talking about..

and it states

so if it doesn't work, i file a complaint and get my money back either from ebay or them.. and ill just order a brand new motherboard for $300~..

But if i can save $280 why not?

 

Bad news maxslo.

I asked eBay guy and told him that my chip is 4MB size one and has 2 bioses in it: EC 128KB one and main BIOS 2MB one. But he replied to me and told that "No! BIOS chip is 2MB size one and he will update it with latest BIOS available from Sony site...". Oh really, man?

 

james d - so ordering chips on ebay will work ?

 

Of course I didn't buy it because I can tell that that xact seller will NOT send me working chip.... sad.
Seeler who told me that crap is biosdepot.

But you can try with your seller. As you said in 45 days you will bring your money back.

 

all the sellers say they send working bioses. wirking my . they should solder them to their boards. when you mention bios has 2 parts they send you to hell, and tell you u are dumb and they know how to do their job.

update.
my mobo seems totally dead now. no response at all. must have effed something. looks like im buying new one. is china any good? and i fear the gc is dead too.

 

Before throwing it away make sure that you soldered all 8 pins to mobo. I also think that after 1 bios chip replacement mobo fried because symptoms little bit changed. But I stil have hope that it may be repaired

try to reprogram it again

P.S. I remember someone tried to sell 1 on NBR Marketplace.

 

its soldered ok. i checked.
it stopped working after some reboots.
i think i killed it.

really for how much?

i get it for 145€ from china inc. dhl shipping.

wont work. its physically shot. stopped working after some reboots while i was trying to find out if gc is dead and thus stoping.the mobo to work.

do you have a link to that?

 

Sorry It is sold recently
http://forum.notebookreview.com/computer-components/676113-sold-asus-g73jh-motherboard.html

 

damn. anyone have any experience with buying mobos from china. coz when i bought one for hp dv9000 it died within 2 weeks. i think it was just reheated.

 

whats your s/n ? located on the memory holder

 

60-NY8MB1200-B0B
or maybe
69N0H3M12B0B
don't know exactly.

 

is it a B0B or B08? cause i kno they look similar.. and i ask b/c i only see B08 motherboard no B0B on ebay

>> ASUS G73JH LAPTOP MOTHERBOARD 60-NY8MB1200-B08 60NY8MB1200B08 INTEL S989 | eBay

 

i'm sure. here it is.
Asus 60-NY8MB1200-B0B Asus G73jh Gaming Laptop System Board S989 | eBay

 

I have recently (2 hours ago) helped to recover a Sony laptop after incomplete BIOS flash (battery drained).
He said that his laptop didn't boot at all. Then he flashed little bios chip (it is 128KB and as he says it has the same 128KB bios which was on the other chip from bad mobo from either HP or Acer or else). After this his laptop started to boot up but just black screen. He had bad symptoms like self booting when connect power coard to AC etc.

Then he gave me his back uped profile, I edited it (added 5% of BIOS which wasn't flashed) and his laptop now works.

send me your back uped profile, original BIOS (rom) from site and your modded profile you flashed recently. And give me more info about how did that happend.

Later he will send me image of 128KB and the photo of what is that little bios chip and where is it situated on VAIO mobo.

 

Welp, I gave up trying to fix the G73. I just put it up for sale here... Couldn't get Flashrom to read the BIOS chip, and I'm basically out of time to work on it. If anybody wants/needs some extra G73 parts, hit me up. It's all gotta go!

-And it's already been deleted. Not enough posts. Sheesh.

 

People. Today I recovered my laptop!!!!!!!!!!!
It's Sony VAIO VPC-F126FM.

The technician guy who works in Service Center didn't believe me that it is needed to flash 4MB compiled image instead of 2MB rom file from the support site.

That was SOMETHING!

But if you need help just GIVE ME THE BIOS DUMP AND THAT'S IT!
I will compile new working BIOS image to you just for free.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/son...s-owners-thread-part-6-a-265.html#post8821954

 

sorry, i've been away for some time.
anyway that wont work for me because the mobo is dead, i guess the soldering wasnt really good :s

 

Ok, today i got new motherboard, and it does the same as the old one.
Also the old one started working again :O surprise surprise
So I know for sure now that the problem is not in the motherboard but in the HD5870.

With the GC inserted the CPU fan does a spin-up for a sec and then both start spinning after 20sec on both motherboards.
Wihout the GC, on both motherboards, both fans start spinning as soon as i press power button.

So, if any1 needs a motherboard for g73jh and has a working spare hd5870, i would greatly appreciate.

 

Whoa, just figured the problem.
The cable from mobo to the HDD PCB got loose, and prevented the lappy from starting.
Any1 having the same problem as me should check this out.

i'll try if the original mobo is working also.

 

Facepalm

Just tell us how it is. You can also try to copy a dump from new one to an old one BIOS chip. If doesn't help the post all dumps here.

 

New mobo arrived with only 2 ram slots :S -> max 8GB ram
I'll be replacing it again i guess
I would dump it but i've sold the BP after i thought mobo has died :S stupid

They are both the same revision (2.0) but the new one comes with 211 stock BIOS.

 

I searched google who can help with flashing chip in Kiev. In 30 minutes I found a guy is service center. I payed him only 6$ as thanks.

 

Ok, thanks i'll try that. If I dont get any1 i'll just sell both on ebay =)

 

I have buy a chip remplacement on ebay too. i do'nt have same symptome but it is not ok. Computer turn off about 20 mins, fan at 100% all of the time.
I don't understand all of post, do you resolv the problem with reprogramming or not?

 

No, unfortunately, but my motherboard was also physically damaged. :S

 

Hey guys,
My G73JH just died yesterday morning. It was working great until the night before.

At the beginning, the system turned on but nothing on display.
Ram and CPU checked and OK.

I desoldered the bios it was OK, I programmed it with new file from this post , here , http://rapidshare.com/files/11750373...%20update).zip and soldered it again, but no change.

after two hours challenging, the error change. the system turned on and after 5 sec it turned off automatically.
this morning it change again, it doesn't turn on at all.

any Ideas? What should I do expect buying new mainboard
thanks for your time.

 

Here try this one
G73jh_Full.rar

It should work

 

Thanks, but didn't work. maybe problem lies somewhere else, not sure.
it seems it should be bios, because everything else working well.

by the way, thanks again for your help. I think I should go for a new laptop may be Sager.

 

What is happening when you turn the laptop on, after you reprogrammed with the file i posted?

 

Usually a bios issue would only occur after a bad flash, it could be an error with the CPU power circuitry.

 

Just like before, mainboard turns on, Cpu fan spinning for a while, then turn off. nothing on lcd, cpu gets hot after one, or two mins and cpu fan starts to run.
system hangs in this situation. when I take the Graphic card out, the gpu fan runs at 100%.

this laptop disassembled and assembled thousand times in this two years and half. but it was really unexpected.
It was working great since three weeks before(the last time I disassembled it), but suddenly it showed 0x0000000E blue screen, after I reset the notebook, it never turned on again.

 

Yeah, i think i'll have to agree with meaker here, your BIOS my be ok, but your mobo circuitry is most likely shot...

 

Try stripping it down to the bare motherboard resting on a non conductive surface. Only have the CPU and ram in it and see if it still trips and shuts itself down.

 

I did it already, just motherboard, CPU and one ram, two rams, all different combination of rams, with VGA, without it. nothing happened. it seems the mainboard doesn't like to work anymore. I'm amazed how could something like this happened while it was on my table, no movement, no power shortcut or ect. no driver change nor bios update, nothing. just stopped working.

thanks guys, you really tried to help and I appreciate it.

 

I've seen the CPU power circuitry do that before to, how does the board react with a CPU?

 

without CPU, it turns on and off continuously. with CPU it turns on and after few secs it turns off by itself. CPU gets warm after one min or more, so it seems it is working and shouldn't have a problem.

 

It could be that one of the voltages tapped off the input is low so the boot can't happen properly, either way it looks like you would need a new motherboard to repair it.

 

Hi mates,recently i have killed my bios with wrong flash,then i desoldered chip and programmed w25q2bvsig with my lpt willem pcb5.0 programmer(it took me 2days to work it with willem),it found chip but he could not read it nor write at it,and after 100 tries it worked(file was from maxslo...thanks!).I have soldered chip back,and laptop boots ok,everything works except fans after 20 or so seconds go 100% speed,looked temps and ACPI thrm is 102 degrees...hmmm
Another info i looked hwinfo say's i have motherboard v1.00 but i opened mine and checked MB PCB is v2.0 so i assume that file from MAXSLO was with EC firmware for v1.0 MB.
Does anyone have 4,096kb firmware for v2.0 mainboard of g73jh?
Just note that before fw flash fans were normal,so maybe v2.0 has different thermal driver written in EC....?

 

i should have posted here before i bought my new board. hopefully it is the board but, also there is possibility it's GPU too, both of them, the orginal could be broke nand the new one could have incorrect vbios.

FOR SALE: ASUS G73JH i7 12GB DDR3 HD6970 2gb DDR5

It would seem it's deader than a doornail. I did quite a bit of trial and error with both video cards and the different ram sticks. the first thing i did was test with the least amount of ram possible but, that's hard because the G73JH is a known NO POST with ram in particular slots, the ram has to be in the correct slots for it to post.

the short answer is it's a black screen on internal screen and external screen with each video card, however the fan behavior is different with each card. no video fans spinning, so it's either 2 dead cards or 1 dead mobo or worst case dead every thing. oh yeah i did this bread board style with only the needed parts to TRY to make it post as the case/shell is known to cause shorts and issues it's also known to press some little button on the motherboard if the plastic shell/case is warped enough. it's been a while but, it seems the cpu fan spins differently with each of the 2 GPUs based on the way i worded that. also i don't remember any thing getting hot but, maybe a little bit above room temp.

 

Those things are very very sensitive,u need to be grounded when u hold it,maybe static electricity killed some component and there goes trouble...just assuming...

 

How could i have killed something that was already dead?

 

Was it dead before you handled it? Did you buy it as a dead card?

 

FOR SALE: ASUS G73JH i7 12GB DDR3 HD6970 2gb DDR5 < I bought that.

If all else fails I guess i'll know for sure if and when the new board arrives.

The newer video card came out of an alienware. is that an uncompilable vbios.

 

Gpu is dell brand,and here on forum is comprehensive walk through of installing it into g73jh http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/641007-g73jh-6970m-upgrade-infomation.html

Check only lcd+ mainboard+cpu+gpu(5870)+memory on table,all other cables disconnected,and try to power on.
once i had put touchpad ribbon cable in MB and it was doing same,no screen and fans on,after that i saw pin on ribbon stripped and lean to other pin creating short

 

I did exactly that... many many times with different ram configurations. the only difference is the fan spin up differently with each GPU. I was half expecting to be told the dell vbios is not compatible with Asus. In this case that chances are the original 5870 is dead and the dell vbios not being compatible means problems.

 

Yeah,i would assume the same...

 

I'll see if there is a near by shop that can test them. though i doubt it. hopefully i don't have to buy a new GPU if i do i hope the original mobo is okay and when i buy a new GPU i think i'll get the HD8970.

 

Ok, if anyone is interested i've obtained an OEM BIOS for G73JH (Everything is working including fans, ACPI devices etc...)

If you are interested PM me, if there is much interest i'll upload it and share a link