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    ASUS G51J-A1 BIOS disassembly

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ALLurGroceries, Feb 17, 2010.

  1. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    This is a technical discussion thread ONLY! No speculation or ranting, please.

    The BIOS is AMI Aptio UEFI. Wiki article: http://g51jbsod.wikia.com/wiki/BIOS_disassembly

    Please dump all useful info into the wiki, and use this thread for technical discussion.

    Edit: This technique can also be used for other recent models.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Feb 17, 2010
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    for people willing to look through, note that most if not all of these are in some kind of assembly.

    edit: stick with hex
     
    thalanix, Feb 17, 2010
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    Moving this here...
    Have you tried bsdiff or cmp on any of these? It might be a good starting point to tell what changed between the releases.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Feb 21, 2010
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    negative, that was purely out of curiosity to maybe have an easy answer of what they changed to fix the BSOD. as interesting as it is, all priority goes to throttling atm.

    also quoting myself here;

    ^where location should be register

    decompressed BIOS @ http://www.zshare.net/download/72844662c4392a02/
     
    thalanix, Feb 22, 2010
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    PJPeter, Feb 22, 2010
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