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    Asus n61Ja bios update problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by zKs, Jul 4, 2012.

  1. zKs

    zKs Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I wanted to update the bios, with an official bios update, from version 207 to 211. I didn't use winflash, I used easyflash in the bios. Everything seemed to be going okay; it deleted the old files, wrote the new ones, verified the new ones. Then it said: shutdown in/after 2 seconds and it shut down. Then nothing happened anymore. Power button completely unresponsive. The battery light was still on, and I'm not sure if I should've just waited... I didn't though, I thought I had to remove the battery, take the power off completely to be able to start it up again.

    So I'm wondering: what are my options here? My warranty expired and I don't really have the money to send it in and pay hundreds of bucks on repairs.

    Is there anything I can try? CMOS battery reset? Anything???

    Please help me out! I would be very grateful :)

    N61Ja, btw

    ps. What was sort of odd btw, was that easyflash said something like that it was an unsigned bios and if I wanted to flash it anymore, if i wanted to 'force' it or something. It was with 100% certainty the correct update from the Asus.com support site, so I didn't take that 'warning' seriously.
     
  2. evgasr2

    evgasr2 Notebook Deity

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    Hey!
    sorry to hear this bad news.
    now remove your cmos chip and connect a blind flash enabled flash drive , so it will automatically flash your bios.
    if you want instructions follow my thread: wait il like it up.

    link: here
    and make sure you remove "G73JhAS.204" this file and add your bios to that place and rename it to G73JhAS.204 .
    do this while your cmos battery is out.
    thanks