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post #121 of 447
9/29/06 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by lord roddington
the logo in the corner on startup has changed from the centrino logo to just an intel symbol. i've heard that you lose the centrino logo if you stop using the intel wireless and other such things(not sure if thats true or not), but maybe this is because its a beta? anyway, definitely not a big deal.



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Originally Posted by robohgedhang
Yes, maybe Ken can tell ASUS about the change of Intel logo? That's the only 'bug' in this beta BIOS I think... ?


Now you guys are picky. Okay, I'll request Asus to change that as well, shuld be much easier for them to fix it than the graininess issue.
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post #122 of 447
9/29/06 at 3:23am
LOL.... sorry, Ken.
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post #123 of 447
9/29/06 at 6:26am
Hi Ken!
Please ask them about the vista instalation bug because i test the W3J with a fresh install of Vista and still don't work....

As the rest, the new bios rocks!!!!

Thanks,
Manuel Barbosa
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post #124 of 447
9/29/06 at 11:56am
I'm having a problem with the new BIOS and I'm wondering if anyone could help me out. I clicked on the link and downloaded the BIOS yesterday night. It downloaded as a mp3 file so I ran it. As you can expect, nothing happened. So I turned off my computer and went to sleep.

Now today, when I turn on my computer, it will load the asus screen, then the windows xp screen, the screen will turn blue (standard xp screen) and then restart itself to the asus screen. I've let it run for about 15 min now and it keeps doing the same thing over and over and over again. I'm not sure what's going on but I can't get into my windows desktop for the life of me. I'm not sure how to fix this problem and ideally, I would not like to reformat my comp since I have alot of files that I need and have not backed them up yet.

Can anyone help me out with this?


Thanks
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post #125 of 447
9/29/06 at 12:07pm
intel logo > centrino lol
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post #126 of 447
9/29/06 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by hyperluminous
After flashing did you go into the bios and hit F10 to save everything? I got tons of hardware found messages after flashing by following Ken's instructions completely. No driver installs needed though.

Yep, I did. I don't know why mine didn't do that. The graininess is fixed, and I'm not getting an error on boot about the bios, so I think it's good.

*shrug*

I did have all the newest drivers I could find...

Krista
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post #127 of 447
9/29/06 at 1:38pm
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Originally Posted by pc630
I'm having a problem with the new BIOS and I'm wondering if anyone could help me out. I clicked on the link and downloaded the BIOS yesterday night. It downloaded as a mp3 file so I ran it. As you can expect, nothing happened. So I turned off my computer and went to sleep. Now today, when I turn on my computer, it will load the asus screen, then the windows xp screen, the screen will turn blue (standard xp screen) and then restart itself to the asus screen. I've let it run for about 15 min now and it keeps doing the same thing over and over and over again. I'm not sure what's going on but I can't get into my windows desktop for the life of me. I'm not sure how to fix this problem and ideally, I would not like to reformat my comp since I have alot of files that I need and have not backed them up yet. Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks
yeah mine was doing the stupid downloading the mp3 file thing too. it was really frustrating, IE tried to open it with WMP, and firefox tried to open it with quicktime. not sure why it does this, but when you go to save it just right click on the link and click "Save target as", then make sure you change the extension back to .ROM. as for your problem, i can't see that WMP would have tried to flash the bios , so i would think that it still has the old bios. if you can get into the bios setup i would check the version number, and load the bios defaults. @ken: hey you said to report any problems
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post #128 of 447
9/29/06 at 2:58pm
First time here.

Anyone mind providing a step by step guide to how to download, install, and etc on the new beta bios.
Especially how to install, do I run it in Windows, do I save it in a CD and boot it up before Windows load, what to do?

Please and thank you.
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post #129 of 447
9/29/06 at 3:20pm
Hi LatinoHeat, please check your PM.
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post #130 of 447
9/29/06 at 3:25pm
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thanks guys, I've change it to W3JAS_209A.zip file so people wont have problems with browser try to rename the file.
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post #131 of 447
9/29/06 at 3:27pm
Ken- Thanks for the bios update.. my screen is soo sexy now
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post #132 of 447
9/29/06 at 3:50pm
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Originally Posted by mem
Ken- Thanks for the bios update.. my screen is soo sexy now

Welcome back to the forum mem.
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post #133 of 447
9/29/06 at 4:12pm
Not to be annoying... but if say I experiance problems with the BIOS. How do I reverse/undo it. I fear that if I update the BIOs, and maybe experiance one problem or somehow find that the Centrino logo annoying , I will have a chance of downgrading it to the current BIOS version I have
W3JAS.207

I don't want to recieve a horror message saying "You currently have a newer BIOS version, installation aborted. " or something like that. I will like to have a feeling that I could go back to .207 whenever I can.


Could anyone show a pic of how the intel logo looks in the w3j.

Thanks.

When do you think ASUS will release the final version of the BIOS , and what happened to version .208 ?
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post #134 of 447
9/29/06 at 4:21pm
In the ver. 209A, it's not a Centrino logo, just an Intel logo. It's not that annoying, it just shows for a couple of seconds when you power up the notebook computer, actually no problem at all.

Of course you can downgrade the BIOS. Just make sure that you have the .rom file for the 207 version (if you don't, you can download from ASUS' download site), then run "winflash /nodate" from command prompt, or from Start - Run, and select the .rom file for the 207 version.
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post #135 of 447
9/29/06 at 4:23pm
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beta 208 is for support the Merom only not the graininess issue.
beta 209A support Merom and also fixed the graininess issue.
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post #136 of 447
9/29/06 at 5:29pm

Thank you!!!



Thank you!!

No grainy!!!

THank you to all, everyone. I have not experiance any problems yet. The intel logo, does not look that bad, actually matches the ASUS logo, all grayscale.


Thank you!

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Oops.. Not to be picky, if you looked at a top angle, the grainy is still there, but not as obvious. Still great, at least the front view is great.

Great!
At least the grainy was greatly greatly reduced.
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post #137 of 447
9/29/06 at 5:33pm
Latino you got a Z96J ? it's not gone completely?
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post #138 of 447
9/29/06 at 5:38pm
I got an ASUS W3J. It is gone drastically, but if you put your head about one inch to the screen from a top view/ really angled view, you may notice just a bit. If it may even be called a bit, its almost unoticeable graininess.
At least front view is gone.
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post #139 of 447
9/29/06 at 6:19pm
Same guy in the avatar, but different style?
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post #140 of 447
9/29/06 at 6:23pm
It's funny how we are going from forum to forum.
I send it to your PM in the other notebook forum.
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