Re: Asus GL551

Tried doing it with a Raspberry, but I couldn't get a read of the chip, ended up giving it to a local repair shop to dump the file.

Re: Asus GL551

Update:

The file is valid and works fine (even tho it says N series, they're pretty much the same).

So, for the poor souls that happened to brick their laptops - the best way is to reprogram the BIOS chip by desoldering it, dumping the file onto the chip and soldering it back on. The chip my laptop has is Winbond's W25Q64FVSIQ, be sure if you're replacing this chip that you get _EXACTLY_ the same chip. I tried flashing a brand new chip which was almost the same (W25Q64FVSIG), but according to [url]https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/pdfs/c7de6cf9048a35c3b5e7e0d69fd34b31.pdf[/url]...

Re: Asus GL551

Bump, anyone with a bios dump?

Re: Asus GL551

Update: the mobo is 60NB06R0-MB3020, AAQ20

Re: Asus GL551



I've tried to remove the ram, the HDD, the battery, tried shorting JRST2001 and JRST2002 (not crossing them tho), and again, it's still bricked. Shorting 2001 does make it power on by itself but the end result is the same (or so it seems to me). Shorting 2002 pretty much kills it, but shorting 2001 after that makes it power on again. Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone actually successfully recovered with the CTRL+Home+Power combo?...

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.

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Hi, found this on some guy's youtube explanation on how to unbrick laptops. Need help with my Asus GL551JM