G73jh thinking about flashing the bios

Hi I have a question about updating to the latest bios. I'm currently still running on the old bios (from 2009) that came with my G73JH and the very old driver as well. I've really wanted to update the bios since I can't update the drivers without doing so but I haven't had any bsod or any problems whatsoever. Other than being on an ancient video driver of course. This might be a dumb question but I'm just wondering how much of a performance increase would I see updated to the latest video driver/bios. Recently played the diablo 3 beta and it didn't run as well as I hoped so I'm really looking at doing this whole bios deal. I'm just not sure if it would be worth it for me since all is running well besides some mediocre frame rate problems. Thanks for any input on my problem.

 

It's worth it to get it done. Temps will be a little less. Do it via this method :

1. Format a USB drive to FAT32 format.
2. Download the new BIOS and unzip it to the USB drive.
3. Remove USB drive after you're certain the file transfer is complete.
4. Restart your notebook and while the ASUS logo is on the screen press F2 or del a few times to enter the BIOS setup.
5. Find the Easy Flash Utility and insert the USB drive. Tell Easy flash where your BIOS file is then follow directions explicitely!!!
6. When your notebook restarts, enter the BIOS Setup utility again and select "Load Optimized Defaults" (I think it's f9 )
7. Save and Exit, then continue into Windows.

Some more reading: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/174395-bios-update-guide-asus-notebooks.html

 

Rokano, see post 1828 here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...-how-fix-your-gsod-blues-183.html#post8459598
Updating the BIOS only (as Cuban11182 explained very well) will not allow you to run new video drivers successfully. You also need to upate the Video BIOS (VBIOS).

 

Opps, lol. Thanks JOSEA

 

Thank you guys

 

Rokano, if you carefully follow the first post here http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/515309-how-fix-your-gsod-blues.html
the VBIOS update should work fine. It is not just to cure GSOD's so the title of the thread is a bit misleading. Some have had problems after the VBIOS flash that are not easy to fix, and this is not offically supported by ASUS as far as I know.