Updates from Asus

That's great! Except, when I sent my machine in for RMA, they took away my GSOD-free GPU card (while swapping the mobo) and updated me to 211. What a joke.

 

Long time lurker, first time poster...

I registered so that I can take advantage of the "special deal" we will all get for beta testing the G73 for 4+ months (at least for me). Some users/owners get access to "newer" beta firmware/code.

I thought I would toss my hat into the ring. Experience? Well, I do possess a crippled G73...and have tried many half baked ideas, but have not been creative enough to come up with my own...I HAVE managed (somehow) to keep quiet and let the pros work their "magic".

I figure I can get my post count up into the thousands by just joining this thread.

Please PM me with the details on what I've acquired.

Regards,
SHAKEn (not stirred)

 

That is also bad news for the current G73 owners, since they probably won't stock parts and have to order from Taiwan
Hungarian shops were out of stock for a few weeks, but recently got new shipment...the price is very friendly too, the stock (bluray,720QM,8GB RAM) unit starts at $2475 (EUR 1950)

 

*Shoves*
Wait your turn, the line ends waaaaay baccckkk thaaaar.

 

LOL there truly is no pleasing you.

Chastity, don't leak them. Work with Gary. He's actually trying as opposed to our last community rep.

 

Only members of the monocle tea club are in this line!

 

Indeed. /sips tea (It's really Chek Cola from Winn-Dixie. )

 

Buona Sera Italia!

There is a fix for your problem in the works as I type. If your machine's BIOS is not 209, I would upgrade it to that, since the fix will require it. If you do not know how to flash your motherboard's BIOS, I would suggest getting some help on the matter, since you will also need to flash your video BIOS as well. I'll be posting a general How To for this fix shortly.

 

Is there any way we can talk Gary into giving Hellcry a full refund?

 

Will 211 people like me have to down-flash back to 209, or are there plans for a compatibility fix?
Also, you should PM me that beta vBios. /winks

I won't tell a soul. :3

 

We can't get rid of him that easily. xD

 

I second that motion

 

I've twisted Gary's arm, and got him to let me release the vBIOS, since a working config has been worked out. Mind you, this is not final, but at least you can play without some Gary Screen of Death's mucking you up. Batman AA has been running here for almost an hour (first time ever!) with no overclocks, so Gary left it to me to leak, or not. So I'm making a package, with a little batch file to install it. I'd start making your Bootable USB flash drives if you haven't already.

In the meantime, I'm working on enabling Overdrive.

PS - what's with the damn monocles??!

 

Rumack: I just wanna tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.

jeeeeeeeez tough crowd indeed...whatever happen to welcome to the forum?

 

Couple pages ago. Frustration lead to tea, tea lead to monocles, and it's all history from there.
But what about the bios still? Back to 209 I assume?

Welcome to the forum! My name is Kaelang and I'm ahead of you in line.

 

Good to hear, Chastity. I'd be interested in trying it out myself just to see if the new vBIOS is stable on a presently stable g73.

 

Thank you my lady. If you manage to unlock overdrive, please pack the "untouched" vBIOS file too. I trust you make a good op for the new thread describing the working config combination.

 

LOL, was the "Gary Screen of Death" intentional?

 

Yep. It is.

 

yeah, we already knew in our exclusive club that Gary created the GSOD in an attempt to conquer the world killing our G73!!

do you want to join the club?

 

It will be a cold day in hell before youll be rid of me if you keep telling me off. You like provoking me dont you .

No but seriously Chastity do make this clear so we dont have any unnecessary complications, can the 211 bios be used with this vBios or must you have 209?

 

Ya question is how long? Seriously , if this how can ATI/ Asus screw up so much if 4 other companies have it working? Anyways , idk.. i'm cooling down..

Same here.. u won't get rid off me but i'll shut my trap and have less tension waiting..

its not ken's fault.. it asus's and bloody paypal's fault for taking so long.. and trust me , u don't know how it feels to wait half a year...

anyways, i hope something proper comes out.. a lot of ppls blood pressure will go lower including mine.... and ya how do u make a bootable USB stick? I don't know ... i've got a stick but no idea.. just preparing.. to ensure no GSOD when i use it for first time ... and also is there guide to update the BIOS?

 

She will probably answer this in the op of the thread she is probably editing now.

 

So as its looking now we will either have to have new vbios every driver release or special drivers for us every release

 

i just test the new ati 10.8 on my asus g73 best buy model and it fail GSOD!!!! can some one give us the new VBIOS!! well im back to 10.1

 

ATI cooked the vBIOS with 209 in mind, and Gary's Squad Of Decoders confirmed that 211 broke the compatibility, bringing back Gary's Screen of Death.

I would assume that a later BIOS release will be the easiest way to fix this.

As you may have expected, I've been going nutsy doing all these mods and tests and tests and tests and ....

 

how do we roll back from 211 to 209??

 

Use EZFlash. Works great.

 

Ezflash (from inside your bios) is your friend

 

go into bios with 209 on the flash stick, and say flash from the bios like normal? it will overwrite 211 with 209?

or do i DL ezflash?

also when will the leaked vbios be posted... chastity? no rush just pondering

 

EZ flash is part of your bios, no need to download it.
Yes it will overwrite the bios.
Its just like updating to a new one.

 

so 211bios is bad and 209 is good?? beucase im running 211 it runs fine but when i update the ati 10.8 i get gs od lol

 

Indeed. Best Buy has an amazing return warranty these days. I had a G73 from there for a bit, until I got a working 1080p replacement, and then I decided to return the BB one instead of trying to sell the 1080p model used.

I actually got 2 defective G73s from BB tho. One had a bad LCD with a stripe, and another refused to see all of its RAM. They don't even blink at getting you replacements for any reason.

I've personally used 5 separate G73s and 3 of them had a defect of some sort. Only one had GPU problems though.

 

I rolled back to 209... Now just waiting for the vbios. This is exciting in some weird way. The other day i was asking myself why don't we have fan control in the vbios. Then it hit me, there is no fan on the card. Felt so stupid after that...

 

Hm. I had 14 days.

 

Well actually I forgot that I'm a Reward Zone Premium member. That means I have 45 days. I'm not sure how I got to that tier but it's spiffy.

14 days is still plenty of time though. I usually find problems in a couple of hours at most.

 

So IF I ever get my laptop from RMA and IF I will get GSOD, I should upgrade BIOS to 209 and use this new vbios so I can use latest Catalyst 10.8 without any problems(HDMI working with this new BIOS installed?)? Except Mafia 2 right?

 

In theory. WHERE IS THAT VBIOS? MEW.

 

I'm using 211 bios and didn't update my graphic card yet. Should I be fine for now? Or is there problem with 211 bios?

 

You don't need to worry about downgrading to bios 209 until the vBios is released. You are fine for now.

 

don´t touch nothing until vBios is released

 

<-----------------------------EPIC FAIL Chastity knows why

 

You might as well explain rather then letting her explain for you..

 

DON'T SAY THAT... you're crushing my dreams >_<

 

whats happening with the vbios??

 

Go back about 20 pages and read up to this point.

Kgo.

 

CHASTITY IS MAKING A NEW THREAD!

*/sips tea and holds breath*

 

Oh my God!!!!

 

I think she pressed the "new thread" button and went to sleep to leave us with intrigue xDDDD

 

That would satisfy me. I'm lucky though, atm, I don't play games yet due to school and stuff. I have a feeling that If I played, I would be like the guy who is complaining the most on this tread xD

Also, GSOD is not a hardware issue to whoever said that. Its already been confirmed that its an issue with the vbios.

and finally, I just want to say this... I love asus. I love this laptop. Its awesome and will be perfect with the new vbios update. Not much can be done to those who have waited 6 months for a fix and couldn't even have fun playing because of GSOD. But I still feel like if this thing didn't have any issues, this thing would blow the doors out of any laptop thats out now.

You guys would do well to remember that

with that said - WE WANT AN EXTRA 1 YEAR WARRANTY!! WE WANT AN EXTRA 1 YEAR WARRANTY (repeat 20,000 times)!!!