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    Trouble flashing vbios with USB drive

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by clipperfixer, Sep 29, 2011.

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    I am trying to flash the Vbios on my G73JH. I have been completely unsuccessful and making the two usb drives I have bootable. I have made them with the HP utility, using the cmd screen in windows and doing it manually. Both drives do the same thing. It boots to them and all I can get is a flashing cursor. I have a win98 boot disk for my dvd and it will boot to that just fine. Does anybody have any suggestions for things to try? I am not sure how to flash from a DVD drive, but I assume I would just make an .iso of the boot disk with the vbios and flash utility on it? I am not sure about the dvd method.
    Thanks!
     
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    Create a bootable Win98 USB flash drive using the instructions here if needed.

    Unrar the OD2 Vbios .93 and copy all three files to the USB drive. Reboot and hit esc with the USB Drive inserted and select the USB drive and boot till you reach the C:/ and then type OD2. It will flash and confirm once completed for you to restart.

    Dont mess about with DVD's etc the people that have in the past have been met with failure. Use a clean healthy USB Flash drive.
     
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    Thanks,
    I tried a brand new 2gig drive and a used 4 gig drive using those very instructions. No luck. I don't know if I need to try another drive or what. I just can't get the computer too boot to them. All I get is a flashing cursor.
     
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    When formatting it are you making sure you select FAT32 and then ticking create a MS-DOS startup disc? If not try that.
     
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    Dallers,
    Never mind, I have been jacking with this ALL DAY, and I followed what you said using the bios file that you linked to and it took about 15 seconds to do. It worked flawlessly. I used the flash drive that I prepared earlier, same boot files and all. I just used your vbios as opposed to the files that were on the the link at Rogforums. Thank you! Hopefully I will get to do some gaming tonight and I will be watching my temps. Thanks again! Oh, and now that I can update my video card drivers do you have any recommendations?
     
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    OH, and added rep for you :)
     
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    Your welcome fella if you where on Chastity's thread at the ROG forum that is all good stuff it is also where I linked that file from she is a masterpiece of updated drivers ;)

    The one I linked was the OD2 with better battery timings and I also had problems using the stock .93 version as well the OD2 is the way to go :)

    EDIT: In regards to driver update to the latest 11.9 released today and then you could update to the 11.10 preview drivers they work great for me :)
     
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