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    Recovery partition and firmware

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by sirIsaacNewbton, Oct 18, 2011.

  1. sirIsaacNewbton

    sirIsaacNewbton Notebook Consultant

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    I am planning to sell my G73 sometime soon and of course I will be restoring it to factory settings in order to clear the drives for the new user and let them make their own admin accounts.

    This is one of the laptops that did require the flashing of vBIOS via a file on a bootable thumb drive and I am wondering if this updated vBIOS will persist through the recovery operation. This laptop has a special ASUS utility to recover to default settings which I will be using.

    Also is there a way to shut off the computer after turning it on but before you make a new admin account? I would like to do this so that the new user is not immediately greeted with the "previous shutdown was not complete - start in safe mode" screen.
     
    sirIsaacNewbton, Oct 18, 2011
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  2. DesertPV7k

    DesertPV7k Newbie

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    Just noticed you posted this TODAY.
    Hella random, yea I'm from Vegas, w/e.

    BIOS upgrades/updates/flashes ALWAYS persist.
    The only way to get it back to "stock" is downgrading, which you can find a guide for on this forum(probably multiple guides)

    Do you have any other problems with your computer besides the keyboard lights?
    I literally just signed up to post this for you, and then realized I need to post my own about the Asus warranty program. lol

    TL :DR - BIOS do not get changed during installs/re-installs, ever.
     
    DesertPV7k, Oct 18, 2011
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  3. DesertPV7k

    DesertPV7k Newbie

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    Ans :D is a smiley not : D haha w/e
     
    DesertPV7k, Oct 18, 2011
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