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The ctrl+home is only 66% right its actully ctrl+ALT+home. No idea why. Apparently with this version of the computer, it changed. I literally returned 3 g75vws in 3 weeks due to a secure boot option toggle bug in the STOCK BIOS. Wouldn't post/boot when this and fastboot was toggled. It would do nothing. On the 4th one I figured out, hey, add that "alt" button to the mix and it'll flash the bios on fsX:/EFI/ASUS/G75VW.bin or G75VW.bin on a usb. Regardless, spread the news! The ASUS reps didn't even know this when I called on the 2nd "broken" computer. Haha

Oh god... I feel foolish. I downloaded it but forgot to unpack it

Thanks... but I don't appear to see a "backup.bat" I assume I can google around and find a way to backup the current bios, but I figured I'd let you know.

You could downgrade, in theory, to a checksum'd bios of you choice using ctrl+home (its ctrl+alt+home if ctrl+home doesnt work). Basically yes theres a hidden partition on your drive's EFI. You can mount this in, say, linux doing a mount -t fat32 /dev/sda1 /wherever (or similar). You'll find a G75VW.bin you can replace to whatever version you want in /EFI/ASUS just name it G75VW.bin. But word of caution, you can REALLY mess things up if you don't know what you're doing in the EFI partition.

That'd be great! This thread is the reason I joined. Only 2 more posts to go until I can download. I'm cautious on laptops and heat. My last laptop (hp dv8t) literally "burned up" in my lap. My laptop also has a 670m. Do you still need the dump of this?

Hey svl7, I don't really want to overclock, but I'd like the additional menus. Would you mind sharing your methods of madness (haha). I always get "Invalid BIOS" when I muck around with the bios file. Or... could you provide a bios with no overclocking but has all menus unlocked?

I had this happen to 2 g75vws but only one had I updated the BIOS on. Even then it didn't die until I changed the boot method from CSM back to Fastboot (UEFI). Asus told me to send the last one in after their (hold the power button for 2mins with no power connected and battery out) fix didn't work. I'm quite sure this is a very bad bios bug somewhere in the code.

I think you might get a cease and desist letter sooner for the domain similarity I wish you luck!