V6j Acpi Bsod Time Bomb

Dear fellow V6J owners,

If you find yourself with the infamous ACPI BSOD while trying to boot your comp this morning, don't freak out. I just came back from ASUS Melbourne where i spent the whole day with the techies trying to figure out the culprit. Its neither a faulty memory, nor the harddisk, but a time bomb bug in the bios which will crash your system on every 30th August. It will happen next year also. All current V6J bios versions are believed to be faulty. Don't waste your time. The only workaround is to change the system date to something else other than 30th August. ASUS HQ has been made aware of the issue and should be working on a fix...

If this information was of any use to you, please rep me for my wasted day

 

Wow, that's pretty weird--not as weird as batteries bursting into flames or anything, but weird. I bet we'll be hearing more about this as the day goes on (still early in the US as I type this). Congrats on working it out, though.

 

Its amazing that given that its only a 24h problem that you were able to get to asus and figure it out all in the space of a day....not related to Jack Bauer are you? For most people, it would take weeks to even get there laptop looked at, and by the sounds of it the problem would have fixed itself by then.
Keep us posted as to if/when asus posts a bios fix/update
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ps my M6 and M2 are working fine no bsod today for me!

 

Haha, well that's just great... I spent around 6 hours trying to figure out what the heck was wrong, but it seems to have fixed the problem changing the data as you describe.
I am now running BIOS ver. 302.

But anyway thanks a lot... This is very pleasing to know that some still are working on the V6J...

 

Wow that IS weird. I also wasted the entire day yesterday backing up data changing BIOSes and so on (
Will rep you anyway

Sending in the laptop for the second battery RMA, so I don't care that much. But I did waste a working day because of a stupid bug...

 

Took them a while to release a fix, but here's bios 303 which fixes the RTC BSOD bug

ftp://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/V6J/V6J303AS.zip

 

Thanks Seb!

 

Hey, does your bluetooth stay on every time you reboot, even though you switched it off?

 

Hi, before 30.8.2006 is all normal, BIOS version 212, after system restart, Bluetooth stay off when turned off before restart. After TimeBomb Day, I have Bios 302 and maybe new drivers, after all restarts Bluetooth is turned ON.

 

Yeah, it always boots to on.

But I don't mind, that's how I discovered that wireless only works if bluetooth is activated. So it's like:

wireless_connect_flag = wireless_flag && bluetooth_flag;

though there is no logical connection between the two. (Edit: I don't mean the LEDs, the LEDs work fine, and the networks are found just fine, just that it doesn't connect unless BT activated)

For the top-of-the-line, business machine that it's supposed to be, the V6J creates too many problems in my opinion (see also the battery issues...).

 

dis couraging to hear about the v6j problems considering i was going to get one with an upgraded core 2 duo processor possibly 2.0 ghz and upgrade the ram to 2gb and hdd to 160 which is a recent development in finding a merchant that does this and quite exciting depending on much you upgrade it gets expensive and if the v6j has soem problems evne less worth it then especially with more powerfull and featured yet less expensive offerings from dell and hp

sucks

before ppl are starting to hear about it, i could just imagine my signature with a v6j with core 2 duo 2.16 ghz procesor, 160 or more gb hdd, and 2gb of ram

and the reaction it would get with ppl thinking it was fake a first.

 

I don't think the BIOS troubles are reasons not to buy - annoyances at best, you should be more concerned about the battery. If you do get that, watch for hibernation trouble and get the microsoft patch, you will need it.

 

lol jack bauer is the greatest. 24 is so awesome.
i know this is an old thread i just thought i'd throw that in.

 

what about the battery? it jus doesn't last as long as some others?

hibernation trouble? I'm having what I think is a standby problem. when I close the lid and then reopen it even a min or so later the screen is off and wont come back on by any of the methods in the manual.

there is some but not as much as I though talk and solutions for this. what sucks is there is no way to get it back without turning off the laptop and then turn it back so i will lose everything on the screen.

also what microsoft patch do you mean?

 

The battery trouble is described in the "Batter Wear" thread. Read about it there for details, but basically the battery wears at an abnormal rate - mine is 3 months old and at a 42% wear level, so now a full charge is what a 58% charge was when i got the battery.

The hibernation trouble was a Windows XP problems with 2GB RAM, if someone else ever has that trouble, I can help fix it. I used to have the standby problem, but from other posts it sounds like you fixed that problem.

 

Battery wear, ok hm, that doesnt' sound good.

hibernation is diff from standby. i did see the win xp trouble with hibernation and 1gb of ram patch but didnt' think i needed as i have no problem getting out of hibernation and figured windows update gave me what i needed.

and yes i did fix the standby problem simply by unchecking the prompt for password box in power settings in control panel under the advanced tab

talkedto a guy at asus usa tech support who could barely speak english, maybe he was taiwanese. was good fun and luckily i didn't need his help much if at all and if anything told him what fixed it. from reading while on with him. he almost wanted me to do a bunch of other more complex stuff which i'm glad i didn't have to like bios update and reinstalling etc.

 

Yeah, the battery wear isn't good.

The hibernation should only be a problem with 2GB of RAM, and even then it is relatively sporadic. As said, the Standby Issue was solved long ago here on this forum.

 

that makes me me wary of upgrading to 2gb of ram. man i wonder if there would have been a better choice then the v6j at this late stage of the game.

oh well, battery wear factor is an excuse to get another laptop soon and to let my wife has it as her own instead of it being a shared one.

plus once i get the rebate back it will have been an amazing deal. 1527

 

Pretty sure the 2GB thing is for any Windows XP machine, not the V6J specifically. It's a former limitation of Windows itself. There is a fix for it on Microsoft's site, I'm sure we can find the link for you if you don't find it after a bit of looking around.

 

I GOT BIT SO HARD TODAY BY THIS!

I was just about to reformat my entire drive, system and the other healthy partition. I found this thread just in time! THANKS BENDER!

EFF YOU ASUS! And thanks for the new bios!

 

Good thing you found the thread in time. I didn't (last year, I mean) I wasted an entire day trying to reinstall and everything.