The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Bad bios flash on Asus G50V-A1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by zubren, May 11, 2009.

  1. zubren

    zubren Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    10
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Basically after the flash it will post, turn off. Then it'll post, then it will actually boot. (So it posts twice on every bootup now.) When it boots, Windows 7 bluescreens. Also it's not picking up my second hard drive anymore. Strange thing is, I can go to the boot menu on the first post, and it will display my second hard drive, then on the second post it wont display my hard drive. Any ideas? I've already reflashed it a couple of times with different revisions to see if it would work, but so far nothing has changed. I updated from rev 203 (stock) to 213 when this happened. Then I rolled back to 203, tried 209, then back to 213 and it still does this. I'm still under the 1 year accidental damage warranty from Asus but I'm not sure if this is covered or not...

    Edit: This was flashed with Easy Flash through the bios, not flashed through Windows.
     
    zubren, May 11, 2009
    #1
  2. MrButterBiscuits

    MrButterBiscuits ~Veritas Y Aequitas~

    Reputations:
    477
    Messages:
    3,334
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    What did you flash your GPU? and what did you flash it to if so?
     
    MrButterBiscuits, May 11, 2009
    #2
  3. GenTechPC

    GenTechPC Company Representative

    Reputations:
    7,361
    Messages:
    4,586
    Likes Received:
    839
    Trophy Points:
    181
    Bios glitch, do this and it'll fix the 2nd hard drive issue:

    1: F2 to enter BIOS
    2: go to Exit and load User default.
    3: F10 to save and exit.
    4: F2 to enter BIOS again
    5: go to Exit and load User default.
    6: F10 to save and exit.
     
    GenTechPC, May 11, 2009
    #3
  4. zubren

    zubren Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    10
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    This worked, thank you so much! :)
    Now I get to fix Windows 7's bluescreen :p
     
    zubren, May 11, 2009
    #4
  5. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

    Reputations:
    565
    Messages:
    2,382
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    56
    I had issues with my second hdd and actually sorta figured this out myself. Latest bios update ran into it again couldnt figure it out this time but swapping the drives saving and swapping back fixed the problem this time.

    Nice to have solid instructions.
     
    RainMotorsports, May 11, 2009
    #5
  6. Khazak

    Khazak Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    About the BSOD. I just flashed too to 213 and yeah Windows Vista BSOD for me. When you flash it changes the SATA mode to enhanced try change it back to compatible in the BIOS ;). It did the magic for me and resolved the BSOD.
     
    Khazak, May 11, 2009
    #6
  7. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

    Reputations:
    565
    Messages:
    2,382
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    56
    I leave it in enhanced thats how the stock copy of vista is installed on the G50VT i dunno about the older V. For xp a simple driver slip stream gets it up to par.
     
    RainMotorsports, May 11, 2009
    #7
  8. Khazak

    Khazak Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yeah I did it too but after a repair it came back as compatible xD. And also gave me BSOD everytime I put back on BSOD. Even AFTER a clean Vista install. I thought maybe topic starter could fix his problem the same way ;). Anything that works I guess XD.
     
    Khazak, May 12, 2009
    #8
  9. Eddie_Winslow

    Eddie_Winslow Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    78
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    i am trying to flash to 213 or 210 using the ez flash in the bios, however, it just keeps saying unable to read bios....how are you guys flashing the bios?
     
    Eddie_Winslow, Aug 7, 2009
    #9
  10. Matteius

    Matteius Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    So when you flash the BIOS on the G50V it reverts the RAID settings and some other settings you will need to re verify everything looks correct. Specifically, the VISTA uses different drivers for either Compatible/RAID/Enhanced such that if you installed with Compatible and go to Enhanced just as I recently did VISTA will always BSOD even if SafeMode. Fortunately Linux doesn't use different drivers and this setting does not make much sense in terms of how they explain it in 213. I can't wait for 214/215--hopefully it makes the static noise disappear when I use a mouse on the right side USB ports in conjunction with headphones :-(
     
    Matteius, May 3, 2010
    #10