Hello everyone,
I have a problem with my GL551JM. Long story short: I've installed an SSD via a caddy (instead of the DVD drive). After I noticed it was on a SATA2 connection I swapped the HDD (on SATA3) with the SSD, but it was still booting from the HDD. After some tries to make it boot properly by changing boot priority in the BIOS, I decided to take the HDD (together with the caddy) out of the laptop. But the BIOS still detected a "CD/DVD" drive. So I wanted to see what would happen if I chose that as the boot option, and poof - I bricked the laptop.
I know the laptop is working, hardware wise it's in good condition, the only problem is the BIOS. I've tried taking out the CMOS battery from the mobo - that did nothing. I've tried taking out the battery and doing the CTRL+HOME combo with a FAT/FAT32 usb (even found one <4GB), the laptop reads the stick but it doesn't boot. The file names were extracted with the Phoenix tool, I've tried AMIBOOT.ROM+.BIN, BOOT.ROM+BIN,kept the original extension etc... Nothing worked. It just reboots after that, the keyboard and LED indicators light up for a few moments and nothing happens (left it on for a while). Sounds to me like I might need to flash the BIOS chip on the laptop, and I've found this youtube video which pointed me to the forums.
Has anyone tried to flash the chip with the clip? Can anyone give me a valid BIOS dump? My BIOS version was 204 iirc.
The web is full of complaints of the same problem by various Asus laptop owners, just can't believe they haven't made an official tutorial on how to flash the NVRAM without electrocuting yourself or killing the device.
Thanks in advance
I have a problem with my GL551JM. Long story short: I've installed an SSD via a caddy (instead of the DVD drive). After I noticed it was on a SATA2 connection I swapped the HDD (on SATA3) with the SSD, but it was still booting from the HDD. After some tries to make it boot properly by changing boot priority in the BIOS, I decided to take the HDD (together with the caddy) out of the laptop. But the BIOS still detected a "CD/DVD" drive. So I wanted to see what would happen if I chose that as the boot option, and poof - I bricked the laptop.
I know the laptop is working, hardware wise it's in good condition, the only problem is the BIOS. I've tried taking out the CMOS battery from the mobo - that did nothing. I've tried taking out the battery and doing the CTRL+HOME combo with a FAT/FAT32 usb (even found one <4GB), the laptop reads the stick but it doesn't boot. The file names were extracted with the Phoenix tool, I've tried AMIBOOT.ROM+.BIN, BOOT.ROM+BIN,kept the original extension etc... Nothing worked. It just reboots after that, the keyboard and LED indicators light up for a few moments and nothing happens (left it on for a while). Sounds to me like I might need to flash the BIOS chip on the laptop, and I've found this youtube video which pointed me to the forums.
Has anyone tried to flash the chip with the clip? Can anyone give me a valid BIOS dump? My BIOS version was 204 iirc.
The web is full of complaints of the same problem by various Asus laptop owners, just can't believe they haven't made an official tutorial on how to flash the NVRAM without electrocuting yourself or killing the device.
Thanks in advance
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