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    G1Sn bios suitable for G1S?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by miksu, Mar 21, 2008.

  1. miksu

    miksu Newbie

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    There is new bios for G1Sn at ASUSTreiber.de ( http://de.asustreiber.de). Anyone knows will G1Sn bios work with G1S or is there someone brave enough to test it?
     
    miksu, Mar 21, 2008
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    hitemup Notebook Enthusiast

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    i think your ready to test it.
     
    hitemup, Mar 21, 2008
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    i'll take a look
     
    adolfotregosa, Mar 21, 2008
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    ok, it works BUT you have to edit the bios and exchange the gpu rom because the normal g1s does not have a 9500 gpu.

    The cpu "bug" is there (rmclock solves that) and also the 3/4gb ram issue (disabling the pci-x root port 3 solved that). But i do notice the system much responsive. I'll keep it for now

    here's screens

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    [​IMG]
     
    adolfotregosa, Mar 21, 2008
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    Bad Luck. I tried to flash the BIOS but the machine won't boot now. Which tools did you use to flash the tweaked BIOS? Maybe I should not have used WinFlash...
     
    ycweng, May 1, 2008
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    Can someone enlighten me why it is so important to upgrade BIOS?
     
    Oldman, May 1, 2008
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    Oldman Notebook Evangelist

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    Yet, each man killed the thing he loved...
     
    Oldman, May 1, 2008
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    does this BIOS have more user settings available?
    especially stuff like voltages and fan control?
     
    nattfoedd, May 2, 2008
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  9. adolfotregosa

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    DON'T USE THAT FILE !!! IT'S BADDLY MODDED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    MOD PLEASE BLOCK THAT FILE.
    THIS IS WRONG !!!
    [​IMG]
     
    adolfotregosa, May 3, 2008
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    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    The file has been removed...please verify the file yourself because if you "brick" your laptop, Asus may not be willing to help you.
     
    Kdawgca, May 3, 2008
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    thank you. that would have bricked many laptops
     
    adolfotregosa, May 3, 2008
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    ycweng - do you have access to a usb floppy drive ?? the machine should be booting but you can not see it.
     
    adolfotregosa, May 3, 2008
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  13. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Check my BIOS update guide, there is a note in the 2nd post about the BIOS crash recovery feature. You would need to contact ASUS support to confirm whether you hae it, and to get instructions on how to use it.

    Edit: also check here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=162684

    And if the computer is running, just not displaying an image, you should be able to put a good BIOS back using a FreeDOS bootable CD with an autoexec.bat that calls the AFLASH utility with a good BIOS version.
     
    E.B.E., May 6, 2008
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    Thanks a lot, adolfotregosa and E.B.E. I do still have two LS-120 drives and a proper USB-IDE external enclosure. In combination they should serve the booting purpose. The machine has been sent back to a local Asus maintenance center, but to my memory the machine was on but didn't seem to boot all the way with HDD sounds and system checkings, or I'd have thought about to try a blind flash. I'd make a call tomorrow to check whether the G1S has the BIOS crash recovery feature, and in case applicable I'd go get my G1S back to try.

    To E.B.E.: possible for you to specify the URL of your BIOS guide? I tried to search your articles by using the forum's search function but it seems to be disabled now.
     
    ycweng, May 6, 2008
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  15. E.B.E.

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    Link in the signature. Do check for that crash recovery.
     
    E.B.E., May 6, 2008
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