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    ASUS U36SD Failed Bios Update

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by dasmoothride, Dec 22, 2011.

  1. dasmoothride

    dasmoothride Notebook Geek

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    It's bricked :( can someone help me? I tried contacting asus but they were no help at all!
     
    dasmoothride, Dec 22, 2011
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Unfortunately, the only fix for a BIOS update failure is to send it back to Asus and have them reset the BIOS. This has been asked and answered many times around here - there is nothing an end-user can do to fix it.

    Call Tech Support and arrange an RMA. Sorry.
     
    ClearSkies, Dec 22, 2011
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  3. dasmoothride

    dasmoothride Notebook Geek

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    It sucks I know. but yeah what I did was I saved the bios file into my c drive in which I didn't know was a bad idea. Then, I updated it via asus easy update utility on the bios and i knew something was wrong because it said: "model not found, force bios boot anyway?" i clicked yes and everything seemed fine i even saw bios update okay windows shutting down it went off and it never turned on again.

    I'll prolly not gonna do some update on the bios again when I get my replacement ASUS.
     
    dasmoothride, Dec 24, 2011
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    igordcard Newbie

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    Did you use the RMA?
     
    igordcard, Apr 27, 2012
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    zeropixel Newbie

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    I have the same experience too with bricking U36SD, apparently when using easyflash the files where the new rom files reside must be in fat16/32 system, I use flashdisk with ntfs and it says different type or something, then accidentally (yes bad UI in asus part) I mistook the highlited "no" button choose when actually it is "yes", and bricked it afterwards.
    No power, no led light, nothing. then I have to send it to asus for RMA.

    Asus really should update their manual on using easyflash and fixing their UI.
     
    zeropixel, Jun 12, 2012
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  6. dasmoothride

    dasmoothride Notebook Geek

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    I think ASUS should change the way on how their machines' BIOSs to be updated. It shouldn't be this complicated.

    Thank goodness I was still in my return period or else I would have stucked waiting from ASUS to bring back my laptop.
     
    dasmoothride, Jul 10, 2012
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