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    Bios flash Easyflash or WinFlash

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by benamin, Sep 17, 2010.

  1. benamin

    benamin Newbie

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    No owners lounge for the N82JQ-A1, but anyways, I am just setting up my new laptop and was considering updating the bios to the most current on ASUS's site for my model which is 207 (came with 206). I have read many of the other model owner lounges and don't really see a consensus. Mine came loaded with winflash and then there is easyflash in the bios, so which is the best/safest in the ASUS world?
     
    benamin, Sep 17, 2010
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  2. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    Easyflash is safest. It works 99.99% of the time unlike Winflash which has a high tendnecy to brick ur laptop.
     
    sean473, Sep 17, 2010
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    breckinjetkt7 Newbie

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    It's helpful to me, Thanks for your analysis!
     
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    breckinjetkt7, Dec 31, 2010
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  4. hatcher

    hatcher Notebook Consultant

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    NEVER NEVER EVER use Winflash, if you don't have a good enough reason to flash your BIOS then that alone is good enough reason NOT to flash it.
     
    hatcher, Jan 1, 2011
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  5. Duct Tape Dude

    Duct Tape Dude Duct Tape Dude

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    I've used Winflash once and it worked just fine.
     
    Duct Tape Dude, Jan 1, 2011
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  6. killkenny1

    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    I had some trouble with my laptop, flashing BIOS helped me a lot. Did it two times. Both times used Winflash. After that, I read a lot of articles which didn't recommend that piece of software. Good thing it didn't brick my lappy :) My advice would be, if you don't have any troubles don't flash your BIOS at all. If you experience some, try reinstalling your OS first. And if that won't help, only then flash BIOS
     
    killkenny1, Jan 1, 2011
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    nX3NTY Notebook Consultant

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    Easy Flash, its a no brainer. Very easy to use and works all the time. You don't need to remember any command, just put the BIOS file to USB drive, boot BIOS and start Easy Flash and start flashing. Its as easy as that
     
    nX3NTY, Jan 1, 2011
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  8. hatcher

    hatcher Notebook Consultant

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    Easy flash from within the BIOS is my preferred option, i would never trust Windows to flash my BIOS but that's just me.
     
    hatcher, Jan 2, 2011
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