Flashing ASUS UX51VZ with correct bios
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Happy to be part of this forum for my first post!
Short story:
I believe my dad's UX51VZ has an incorrect bios (v207) for a UX51VZH flashed onto it. I'm not quite sure what the differences are between UX51VZ, UX51VZA, and UX51VZH. The serial number of this machine is D5N0CY845932229 and comes up as a "UX51VZ-DB103P" when checked on this ASUS website. All of the bioses can be found at this ASUS website.
1) Do I have the correct bios or should it be the v205 for UX51VZ? Is there something I can check inside the machine to make sure?
2) If it's incorrect, how do I flash v205 for UX51VZ? Flashing from the BIOS itself with "Easy Flash" I have to type in "risky" as it doesn't seem to see the battery (windows sees it fine), and when I give it the UX51VZ file, it says the model doesn't match. It recognizes the current v207 BIOS as UX51VZH and the "new" v205 one as UX51VZ. Using WinFlash in Windows it says "The BIOS file is not suitable for this model." Will it work if I change the file name from UX51VZAS.205 to UX51VZHAS.205?
Long story:
My dad's UX51VZ started blasting its fans at full speed as soon as powered up about a year or two ago. I found a thread on this forum that suggested it may be a faulty Q2804 chip. I thought I had the same issue since my auto brightness also did not work. We took it into a computer shop and I told the guy to replace it but I don't think he knew what he was doing. He claimed to have replaced the chip, it worked for a day, then the problem came back. We brought it back (this time without first removing the 2 SSDs), he said he replaced the original chip and tried to downgrade the BIOS. Then the computer booted back up a couple of times, blue screened and never successfully booted back up in to Windows again. I think it may be because the BIOS was set to RAID when in fact this machine was not in RAID config. I just installed Windows 10 again (repair did not work) and it's working fine again, all files of both drives are still there, but the fans are still blasting at full speed. The inside is clean and the temps are fine. Funny enough the auto brightness works now! I'm not sure if this is due to installing better ASUS drivers on the fresh Win10 install.
Happy to be part of this forum for my first post!
Short story:
I believe my dad's UX51VZ has an incorrect bios (v207) for a UX51VZH flashed onto it. I'm not quite sure what the differences are between UX51VZ, UX51VZA, and UX51VZH. The serial number of this machine is D5N0CY845932229 and comes up as a "UX51VZ-DB103P" when checked on this ASUS website. All of the bioses can be found at this ASUS website.
1) Do I have the correct bios or should it be the v205 for UX51VZ? Is there something I can check inside the machine to make sure?
2) If it's incorrect, how do I flash v205 for UX51VZ? Flashing from the BIOS itself with "Easy Flash" I have to type in "risky" as it doesn't seem to see the battery (windows sees it fine), and when I give it the UX51VZ file, it says the model doesn't match. It recognizes the current v207 BIOS as UX51VZH and the "new" v205 one as UX51VZ. Using WinFlash in Windows it says "The BIOS file is not suitable for this model." Will it work if I change the file name from UX51VZAS.205 to UX51VZHAS.205?
Long story:
My dad's UX51VZ started blasting its fans at full speed as soon as powered up about a year or two ago. I found a thread on this forum that suggested it may be a faulty Q2804 chip. I thought I had the same issue since my auto brightness also did not work. We took it into a computer shop and I told the guy to replace it but I don't think he knew what he was doing. He claimed to have replaced the chip, it worked for a day, then the problem came back. We brought it back (this time without first removing the 2 SSDs), he said he replaced the original chip and tried to downgrade the BIOS. Then the computer booted back up a couple of times, blue screened and never successfully booted back up in to Windows again. I think it may be because the BIOS was set to RAID when in fact this machine was not in RAID config. I just installed Windows 10 again (repair did not work) and it's working fine again, all files of both drives are still there, but the fans are still blasting at full speed. The inside is clean and the temps are fine. Funny enough the auto brightness works now! I'm not sure if this is due to installing better ASUS drivers on the fresh Win10 install.