vBIOS Worked - Many Thanks/Thoughts

Just wanted to express my gratitude for the vBIOS fix from Gary. It seemed to work and that just made my day. I'm sure a lot of other people (in fact, I know a lot of other people) are happy about this but here's why I am.

My very powerful desktop computer has been acting up lately and been on the edge of death for some time. I knew this and (coincidently have a LAN party this Friday...) knew I needed a replacement.

After purchasing the G73JH-X3 I was feeling a little buyers remorse but figured it would pass - after all I needed the replacement right? I setup the machine two nights ago, transfered all my files and began using it. I powered down my old desktop and figured I'd sell off the components that were still good.

Yesterday morning I got up a little earlier to play with my new computer. I booted into Fallout 3 (one of my favorite games) and began playing where I left off... Within no time I had the GSOD and then another hard lock up at a black screen.... What the hell have I gotten myself into?

I started searching through forums and to my horror I started reading about people RMA'ing their machines due to a defective graphics card... My god, I just jumped from one hardware problem to another....

Eventually I came across this magical vBIOS fix that adjusts the voltage on the GPU to support the strenuous clock speeds while gaming (at least that's how I interpret it).

Problem solved I haven't been man enough to start playing Fallout 3 again because I'm scared it'll come back, but I'm pretty certain that Unreal Tournament 3 with all settings cranked to the highest for an hour or so was strenuous enough of a test.

So thanks again, you've made my week and I will likely have a blast at the LAN party... I haven't been to one in over 10 years so this will be really nice.

On a side note, has anyone experienced this problem coming back? I'm on Cat 10.10 and I hope this is permanently fixed.

Thoughts?

 

I have no thoughts.

 

Did you ever have the GSOD problem? Was yours solved by flashing the vBios at some point? Did the problem ever resurface?

 

Yes.

Yes, after working many long hours on the beta team with Gary and the R&D group at Asus. Finally got it pegged down on the 2nd public beta. HellCry will mention it's not as stable as the MSI release, but the R&D team have stopped working on it.

Very rarely, but I attribute them to unstable overclock settings or driver crashes.

 

Congrats on taking the vBIOS plunge and getting your GSODs fixed. The problem will only resurface, as Chastity mentioned, if you overclock too high (800/1100 seems to be the max safe zone). Now only if they fix my laggy keyboard and wonky touchpad, I'll be a happy camper.

 

Awesome, thanks for the information.

I'm still scared to play Fallout 3 as that's where my heart feels like it stopped when the GSOD with bars appeared.

It's probably fixed, I'm just worried.

Chastity, I guess I would like to thank you for your help too. Your contributions make the owners of G73's feel as though they wisely spent their money - as opposed to how I was feeling before I knew there was a fix.

 

I just updated the vbios.....and so far it seems great....im on latest AMD drivers too... .....thanks to all for the fix... .....another thing I don't get is people OC the card....for me this is a beast the way it is....too each there own I guess...

 

Glad you fixed your problem.

Without the GSOD problem, G73 is actually damn good.

Just that why does mine lag in BFBC2 when there are too much smoke.

 

Because smoke is crazy high intense resource CPU and GPU usage. Turn of HBAO (or whatever the dynamic lighting option is). Read up here.

 

Thanks, i'll try turning that off.

 

That is very disappointing to hear. Do you know if they have plans to ever finish/fix and release a final instead of a beta?

 

No I do not, sorry.