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[OrangeBunnies]

Hello everyone, I am in a bit of a pickle here.

I've installed the modded 212 BIOS and everything was working perfectly until I decided to uninstall my video drivers, after which I restarted my laptop, but it keeps BSOD'ing once it hit the windows screen, I tried flashing the BIOS in safe mode but it would not allow me to, I tried reformating the hdd and re-installing Windows 7, it won't even install now. Have I bricked my laptop?

[MSGaldenzi]

do your audio ports work?

the audio ports and usb port are on a daughterboard connected by one cable to the mobo.

when you plug in your usb device, and see the yellow exclamation icon in device manager, go to its properties and check the drivers tab, and post a screenshot here.

Audio works just fine. I plugged some headphones in to test and they worked flawlessly.

Hello everyone, I am in a bit of a pickle here.

I've installed the modded 212 BIOS and everything was working perfectly until I decided to uninstall my video drivers, after which I restarted my laptop, but it keeps BSOD'ing once it hit the windows screen, I tried flashing the BIOS in safe mode but it would not allow me to, I tried reformating the hdd and re-installing Windows 7, it won't even install now. Have I bricked my laptop?

Seems like you messed something up when you did the bios flash... I flashed to 212 and uninstalled all AMD drivers and then reinstalled them and everything runs.

[OrangeBunnies]

Seems like you messed something up when you did the bios flash... I flashed to 212 and uninstalled all AMD drivers and then reinstalled them and everything runs.

I do not think I flashed inncorrectly, I followed all the steps and everything ran fine when I bench tested on 3dmark06, 3dmark11, vantage, heaven's benchmark, Furmark, Prime95 as well as playing some source games.

After uninstalling all video drivers and restarting, I keep getting BSOD as soon as I hit the windows desktop. I am unable to install drivers in safe mode and cannot get winflash to operate without them.

I am currently installing the OS onto the HDD using another computer and hopefully it works.

[MSGaldenzi]

I do not think I flashed inncorrectly, I followed all the steps and everything ran fine when I bench tested on 3dmark06, 3dmark11, vantage, heaven's benchmark, Furmark, Prime95 as well as playing some source games.

After uninstalling all video drivers and restarting, I keep getting BSOD as soon as I hit the windows desktop. I am unable to install drivers in safe mode and cannot get winflash to operate without them.

I am currently installing the OS onto the HDD using another computer and hopefully it works.

Well if you can't get it running when you install the new HDD then you know its got to be something onboard, like the bios. Definitely a weird problem to be having...

[OrangeBunnies]

Well if you can't get it running when you install the new HDD then you know its got to be something onboard, like the bios. Definitely a weird problem to be having...

Alright A fresh install of Win7 on my desktop seems to have fixed the BSODing, but oddly enough I can't install winflash anymore, it keeps saying it is only available for notebooks. Regardless I'm just glad it works now. But not being able to flash to newer BIOS is concerning.

[MSGaldenzi]

Alright A fresh install of Win7 on my desktop seems to have fixed the BSODing, but oddly enough I can't install winflash anymore, it keeps saying it is only available for notebooks. Regardless I'm just glad it works now. But not being able to flash to newer BIOS is concerning.

You still can... There is a driver you need to install from the Asus site... I had the same issue, I think the driver is the atk package. DL and install that one first, then try winflash. Look back a few pages and find my post of the drivers I installed when I did my fresh install... I mention this.

[Sxooter]

Gotcha on the overclock... I guess I will figure out how to get 2.2 and just run that during games.

As for the uninstall... I noticed some weird drivers in my usb... some asus power plus ones... maybe those are the culprits?

Note that an overclock to just 1.8 or 2.0 makes a world of difference. At 1.4GHz CPU is the limiting factor in most games. At 2.0 to 2.2 you'll mostly be GPU limited.

[MSGaldenzi]

Note that an overclock to just 1.8 or 2.0 makes a world of difference. At 1.4GHz CPU is the limiting factor in most games. At 2.0 to 2.2 you'll mostly be GPU limited.

Ya, 1.4 is pretty low on the clock scale. Going to 2.2 is almost a 100% improvement.

[OrangeBunnies]

I installed the ATKACPI driver and winflash works fine now.

After setting it to only use the 6650 in CCC, I can't seem to change screen brightness with the keyboard controls, but it still works in control panel, anyone else having this problem?

I'm also getting rather low 3dmark11 score of P1131 with stock settings + 8GB ram, Catalyst 12.3 + v212 modded BIOS (turbo boost enabled)

[link626]

It might also be a conflict with the new changes implemented in later AMD catalyst drivers ever since 12.2. (eg. CPU power and AMD overdrive, AMD's control of overclocking cpu and gpu).

Did you notice game performance any better or worse in 12.3?.

that was my first thought- conflict with amd's own oc module.
i was thinking maybe we can mix and match dll's or find a way to disable amd's oc util.


i have uninstalled all my games because i needed hdd space. so i haven't tested any

After setting it to only use the 6650 in CCC, I can't seem to change screen brightness with the keyboard controls, but it still works in control panel, anyone else having this problem?

I'm also getting rather low 3dmark11 score of P1131 with stock settings + 8GB ram, Catalyst 12.3 + v212 modded BIOS (turbo boost enabled)

brightness bug is normal on fixed mode.

p1131 is normal score. your graphics are fine.