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    Unable to recover the BIOS ROM contents ASUS G50v-a1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by stillgreat, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. stillgreat

    stillgreat Newbie

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    I am trying to update my bios to 205 (i have version 204) through AsusTek BIOS ROM EAsy Flash Utility V1.12 and well everytime i get to the file and try to run the bios update i get this massage

    " unable to recover the bios rom contents"


    Thank you in advance
     
    stillgreat, Oct 28, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Make sure that:

    a) The file is UNARCHIVED, i.e., you should not point EasyFlash to the ZIP file that you downloaded from support.asus.com, but to the unarchived contents of that ZIP archive -- a binary file
    b) The binary file is 512KB in size
    c) The download was not corrupted.
     
    E.B.E., Oct 28, 2008
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  3. jeyp

    jeyp Newbie

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    Hello
    I have the simillar problem : I'm trying to update my BIOS from 207 to 216 version. I have unziped the binary file which is 1,00M in size.
    When I load this file with the Easy Flash Utility, I get the following message :
    "Unable to recover the bios rom contents"

    Thank you for helping
     
    jeyp, Mar 5, 2009
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  4. Bryanu

    Bryanu Notebook Deity

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    How do you have bios 216? I thought 210 was latest. You sure you got right file for the G50's?
     
    Bryanu, Mar 5, 2009
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  5. jeyp

    jeyp Newbie

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    oh I'm sorry, I have the F80S
    I downloaded the latest bios version for this model to solve a freeze problem (as I read in another forum)
    I'm sorry for having set my post in the wrong thread
     
    jeyp, Mar 5, 2009
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