Friday, November 16, 2007

ASUS R2H - BIOS 208

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BIOS 208 - R2H208AS.zip
Workaround H/W to disable C4 at battery mode to avoid that system will hang up at sleeping to s3/s4

I wouldn't recommend applying the BIOS Update unless you know what you're doing and you're experimenting the particular problem. See this article for more details on S3 (Stand-by) and S4 (Hibernate) states.


Update: November 27, 2007

The Miniature Mage said...

I second Dan's warning to only do this if you know what you're doing and if you need it. I and one other owner now have completely dead R2Hs after applying the update. I have been doing BIOS updates at home and as part of my job for 9 years, and, despite my knowing that this kind of thing can and does happen, this is my first failure. I have an RMA.

9 comments :

  1. AnonymousNovember 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

    Might that update be a solution to the Problem with the Wifi when going to sleep/standby? I often had a Bluescreen when going into that mode.

    Jet the only solution was to switch Wifi Of before Sleep/Suspend-Mode.

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  2. Dan DragutNovember 19, 2007 at 11:06 AM

    Hi Michael,

    Sounds right. If you are not sure, try opening a tichet with Asus asking them - as you login to vip.asus.com, on the left side see Technical Inquiry. Never had this problem before. Let us know if you find out more.

    Thanks,
    Dan

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  3. MiniMageNovember 27, 2007 at 5:01 AM

    I second Dan's warning to only do this if you know what you're doing and if you need it. I and one other owner now have completely dead R2Hs after applying the update. I have been doing BIOS updates at home and as part of my job for 9 years, and, despite my knowing that this kind of thing can and does happen, this is my first failure. I have an RMA.

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  4. Dan DragutNovember 27, 2007 at 1:13 PM

    Hi Mage,

    Sorry to hear about your problem, thanks for posting your comment.

    Hopefully you'll get your R2H back soon, although I see you have a new MacBook to keep you company :-)

    Dan

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  5. Dan DragutNovember 27, 2007 at 1:24 PM

    Hi Mage,

    One question, but did you try the BIOS Update from within XP or Vista? I asee the BIOS 208 is tagged on Asus website under Vista 32bit, maybe latest WinFlash for Vista should be used?!

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  6. AnonymousNovember 27, 2007 at 6:12 PM

    I'm very sad with your issue. On Origami forum another user had the same problem related by Minimage and another user said that he/she flashed the bios sucessfully with a dual-boot (Windows XP and Vista?) on Windows Vista environment:

    Wintosh said "I did the bios upgrade to 208 after I read your message (just to make shure;), and everything goes find. I am also running Vista on a second partition from where Istart the upgrade"

    I still have my R2H with Windows XP. I didn't install Windows Vista yet. Maybe I'll do that after the release of the SP1. But I see on Asus website that the BIOS 208 is for both OS's: XP and Vista?!

    Please can you keep us informed?

    Thanks and good luck.

    J.C.

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  7. Dan DragutNovember 27, 2007 at 6:38 PM

    Probably the key to success is to use it from Vista - after all it is trying to fix a problem with Vista.

    You can find BIOS 208 when you searching for XP and Vista updates, but when you look at the download entry it says "OS: Vista 32 bit". I'm assuming something's different between the WinFlashes on the two operatins systems, rather than the operating systems themselves.

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  8. MiniMageNovember 29, 2007 at 4:32 AM

    Thanks all!

    I think I'll finally get the R2H sent tomorrow; Asus have been FAST FAST FAST in the past with getting it back to me, and I don't expect any less this time. I should feel LOTS better late next week or early in the following week. Then again, 'tis the season, and Asus can't control that.

    I actually did the update from Vista, which was installed on a second partition. The technician I talked to thought that may have been where I went wrong (that didn't sound quite right to me, but he's the one who's been supporting the device, so I didn't argue). Since someone else succeeded where I failed, I will have to try to look deeper for an explanation. The app reported that it successfully flashed, but then the R2H did no more after that. I do know that flashing to 207 went just fine for me from XP.

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  9. Dan DragutNovember 29, 2007 at 12:08 PM

    Hi Mage,

    Thanks for you reply. I found that all my technical questions were answer rather promply, but always by the same guy :-) Not that's a bad thing or anything, he may be very good or there are really not that many issues :-)

    I hope Asus will fix the issue in current BIOS version or the next one.

    Dan

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