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    M6Ne BIOS experiment

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by AuroraS, Apr 11, 2005.

  1. AuroraS

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    For all of you who have purchased a M6Ne/M6BNe barebone.. have you ever tried updating your BIOS to a Z70Ne BIOS?
    There is a person on notebookforums.com claiming that there IS a difference between then preconfigured M6s available in other places in the world and barebone "generic" versions... and thus the BIOSes will behave differently on each machine (i.e barebone M6s should use the barebone Z70Ne BIOS)

    I'm about to flash my barebone M6Ne with the newest Z70Ne BIOS (0207Ge... note that it's "Ge" and not "Ae")

    Wish me luck

    ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Toshiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700
     
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    Very interesting... I'm now using the 0207Ge BIOS for the Z70Ne.
    The first thing I noticed was that the usual BIOS logo has changed.
    Instead of showing "ASUS" and "Intel Centrino" in the bottom right corner, all I see is an "Intel Centrino" logo in the centre; NO asus logo at all on the BIOS logo.

    Other than that, I'd have to say... my fans are working quite well. I haven't used it long enough to say too much about it... I'll try to keep you guys updated.

    ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Toshiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700
     
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    Your a sucker for punishment, after the problems I got from 207 regular, I doubt that I will upgrade my bios ever again. But hey if your keen thats great....keep us posted....I hope it all works ok for ya.
    a
    :)

    ASUS M6Ne 15.4" WSXGA 1.7 PM ATI9700 80Gb HDD 1Gb RAM
     
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    Well, after more vigorous testing...I've concluded that the 0207Ge BIOS is exactly the same as the German 0207Ae.001. BIOS file.
    And thus, I've gone back to the 0208Ae BIOS... the most recent one released by ASUS.

    I'm tired of updating BIOSes [ :(]
    haha... it was worth a shot though.

    ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Toshiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700
     
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    Did you try 0208 yet? The fan slows down.

    Thanks,
    Justin
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    Yeah, I've used 0208 for a while now... I just wanted to try the Z70Ne BIOSes as an experiment.
    0208 works alright I suppose..

    ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Toshiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700
     
    AuroraS, Apr 12, 2005
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    That was me on Notebookforums. I haven't noticed any great improvement in fan behavior. The only reason I'm using it is that with the Ae BIOS my system would always hang on the second time it went into Standby mode, and with the Ge BIOS it doesn't. And Ge stands for Generic, not German...

    old: Sony PCG-GR300P 1.13GHz PIII-M, 512MB
    new: Asus M6Ne 2.00GHz P-M, 2GB
     
    highlandsun, Apr 16, 2005
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    Well, I never said that it stood for German... it's just that experimentally, the Ge and Ae from the German site worked the same way on my M6Ne...

    ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Toshiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700
     
    AuroraS, Apr 16, 2005
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