ASUS G53JW New BIOS 210 Available

[Vidsavage]

Well reason I say it would void your warranty is because I contacted ASUS directly and I mentioned the word BIOS, and his first words were basically "warranty void". I have been using ASUS for a number of years now, and never heard of this, so any other clarification would be great.

Proud owner of Bricked ASUS G53JW... :/

[Chastity]

email gary_key@asus.com with your Case number and your contact info, and a description of your issue.

[flydutch]

Hello guys,
stay away from the G53jw 210 bios since it will brick your pc. Just bricked mine.
Power won't turn on anymore, it's just dead.
I live in Italy and RMAing it to ASUS tech, hope I don't have to pay for repair.
Anyone know if there is a way to restore 209 without having to send it to ASUS?
Greets

[myx]

You must have been doing something wrong, since there are others who have had no problems updating to bios 210. Myself have done it, without a sweat.

[Chastity]

Hello guys,
stay away from the G53jw 210 bios since it will brick your pc. Just bricked mine.
Power won't turn on anymore, it's just dead.
I live in Italy and RMAing it to ASUS tech, hope I don't have to pay for repair.
Anyone know if there is a way to restore 209 without having to send it to ASUS?
Greets

Once bricked ist bricked.

[flydutch]

I think that the thing that bricked it was updating the BIOS with my portable USB 3 drive inserted, bacuse also my portable Iomega drive is bricked.
Damn

[Chastity]

I think that the thing that bricked it was updating the BIOS with my portable USB 3 drive inserted, bacuse also my portable Iomega drive is bricked.
Damn

Damn, when you brick, you do it in style!

[flydutch]

Once bricked ist bricked.

It's going back for repair today, let's see what support will say.

[Ruckus]

I think that the thing that bricked it was updating the BIOS with my portable USB 3 drive inserted, bacuse also my portable Iomega drive is bricked.
Damn

Sounds like your Iomega drive was defective or something wrong with it then. I can't fathom how updating a bios on a laptop could possibly ruin your usb drive.

[bigspin]

It's going back for repair today, let's see what support will say.

Bios update is about USB 3.0 , so my guess is when update the bios it might overloaded(Voltage).

I can't believe you update the bios using usb 3.0 since change log clearly mentioned it.