- Jun 10, 2016
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Hello,
I'm having some problems with an ASUS R700V. While trying to update the HDD to an SSD, the system wouldn't always recognize the SSD. I checked for SATA and AHCI in the BIOS, but there were few options regarding SATA config. I then decided to update the BIOS (like the last time I've had similar issues with another mobo, and succeeded).
After downloading the last BIOS from the ASUS website, I went on with trying to update it. All went well, the flash tool verified the image, erased the previous BIOS, and started writing the new one, UNTIL it reached 100%. At 100% it gave me a 'ROM Update not Success' - Verify Error.
What's awesome is that the first step of the update process was the verification step, and it said it was ok.
So... after rebooting the laptop, to my surprise, it entered bios, and I said to myself, 'good, it hasn't updated it, it's not bricked', but upon checking the BIOS version, it actually was updated.
And the update offered SATA configurations, but guess what? The BIOS is corrupted, and now it won't boot from any HDD.. the EFI option dissapears when I set it to enabled!
So.. yeah.. the laptop is semi-bricked, I can't install any OS on it, and ASUS support ..well... supports nothing. Their solution was 'try using it with the old HDD'.
I've already tried re-flashing it with previous or the same version, and it won't do it, saying that the version is too old.
Has anyone managed to recover from a corrupt bios update?
Does anyone know of a way of tricking the system into 'thinking' that version x.1 is actually version x.2? I'd be happy with bringing it back to the previous condition.
I have to mention that even if the mobo dvd would have had a bios recovery on it, I don't have the dvd.. maybe I can download something similar from somewhere, but I haven't found anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
I'm having some problems with an ASUS R700V. While trying to update the HDD to an SSD, the system wouldn't always recognize the SSD. I checked for SATA and AHCI in the BIOS, but there were few options regarding SATA config. I then decided to update the BIOS (like the last time I've had similar issues with another mobo, and succeeded).
After downloading the last BIOS from the ASUS website, I went on with trying to update it. All went well, the flash tool verified the image, erased the previous BIOS, and started writing the new one, UNTIL it reached 100%. At 100% it gave me a 'ROM Update not Success' - Verify Error.
What's awesome is that the first step of the update process was the verification step, and it said it was ok.
So... after rebooting the laptop, to my surprise, it entered bios, and I said to myself, 'good, it hasn't updated it, it's not bricked', but upon checking the BIOS version, it actually was updated.
And the update offered SATA configurations, but guess what? The BIOS is corrupted, and now it won't boot from any HDD.. the EFI option dissapears when I set it to enabled!
So.. yeah.. the laptop is semi-bricked, I can't install any OS on it, and ASUS support ..well... supports nothing. Their solution was 'try using it with the old HDD'.
I've already tried re-flashing it with previous or the same version, and it won't do it, saying that the version is too old.
Has anyone managed to recover from a corrupt bios update?
Does anyone know of a way of tricking the system into 'thinking' that version x.1 is actually version x.2? I'd be happy with bringing it back to the previous condition.
I have to mention that even if the mobo dvd would have had a bios recovery on it, I don't have the dvd.. maybe I can download something similar from somewhere, but I haven't found anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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