Asus G51Jx Owners Lounge

[jruschme]

Help!

I mistakenly flashed an Asus G51Jx with the BIOS of a G51J (no 'x'). Now it powers on with no video (never boots) and I have to remove the battery to shut it down.

Does any body have an instructions on how to prepare a BIOS recovery disk (CD or USB) and what keystrokes are required to invoke recovery?

Thanks...
John Ruschmeyer

[Gps3dx]

try and boot with the orig disk that you got from asus...
I know some that some asus motherboards can recover using that disk.
( although, it will install an old bios version... )

[Gps3dx]

OK...
I've been waiting for this solution a LOT of time...
Have you ever been interested in pushing "Splashtop power button" and boot up any other OS other then splashtop ????

Well, apparently someone DID MANAGE TO SOLVE IT !
The problem behind that button, is that it got its "commands" from a set of code that is writen inside the BIOS...
But someone wrote an assembler program to bypass that...

Now, I haven't tried that yet - because I'm a 1st year university student, and my next holiday is like in another 1/2 year...
So - I'll be happy to see if someone can try and follow the author readme and can check that this solution works.
( other people reported that it work for them on other laptops... )
So please, Look here for details, and download the file+readme from here.

Have you thought what you can achieve with 1 button !??
think about a nuclear suitcase... then think about your G51jx... :-)
T.B.C

[jruschme]

Originally Posted by Gps3dx

try and boot with the orig disk that you got from asus...
I know some that some asus motherboards can recover using that disk.
( although, it will install an old bios version... )

The problem with that idea is that it assumes the notebook could boot whereas mine just sort of hung.

I did get it figured out though...

Apparently, it possible to recover from a bad/wrong flash by holding down Ctrl+Home (AMI standard recovery keystroke) while powering on. The recovery system can reflash from a BIOS stored on a USB stick. The trick seems to be the naming of the BIOS file which must be of the form model.BIN (i.e., G60JX.BIN, in this case).

I ran into an additional problem in that I had flashed with the BIOS from another system, so I actually had to name the file after the "wrong" system for it to be recognized.

This all came as a surprise to the folks at the Asus RoG board where it is commonly believed that AMI Aptio recovery doesn't work on G-series notebooks.

JR

[Gps3dx]

Cool... good to know...
I managed to do the same on my standard asus motherboard...(p5w-dh)
Now you know you received good product to your investment...

And on another topic - Did anyone tried the Splashtop-button override ?

[Kibble Fat]

Has anyone ever gotten the s/pdif output to work??? I can't believe how many problems this laptop has lol

[shinakuma9]

Heh, I'm getting a bit concerned about the eventual death of my GPU. My temps have slowly been rising ever since I got this laptop. 2 years will be in October of this year. Anyway 100c temps are now common while playing Dota 2. I haven't had any BSODS or artifacting or anything at all ever to date. But I'm getting a bit worried that if I don't repaste or do something soon I will be facing death of my GPU. I suck at repasting and am too scared to do it myself. Does anyone know if ASUS can themselves do it if I request it? Or should I go to a local computer store and just get them to do it.

[Kibble Fat]

A local repair shop would do it no problem. First get out your vaccuum and go to town, just put the nozzle up to each vent for a second. I'll bet that excess dust is a main contributor to the temp rise you're seeing. Gotta get that good airflow

[freskoff]

shinakuma9, it's not so difficult to remove bottom cover, then fan baseplate & remove that "dust plate" which is preventing the fan to force hot air out.
But for thermopaste case - better to bring it to some workshop.

[Jack2727]

First of all ASUS decided to put thermal tape on our GPU instead of thermal goop... If you still have your warranty you can send it back to ASUS with a note explaining that its beginning to overheat, at this point you can also ask them to replace the thermal tape with thermal goop and get the laptop cleaned out.

Doesn't really seem like much of a reason to use your warranty but it seems your 2 years is almost up... mays well go now.