GL502VS Bios 306 = no boot with secondary SATA SSD connected?

[john_matrix]

Hello,

I have updated the BIOS of my GL502vs to the v306 and it simply cannot boot anymore.
Indeed, it's now freezing with the Republic of Gamers logo.

After some investigations, I have discovered that this is the SSD (Samsung 860 EVO) connected on the SATA port that is causing this freeze (a mechanical HDD or nothing connected cause the system to boot normally).

I have compare the logs of the v302 and the v306 BIOSes with AMIBCP and the only differences are some mentions of nvme settings).

Are some GL502vs owners in the same case?

[AFRIKA]

oooh welcome to the cant boot up after bios update club, get ready to rollback your bios with an old hard drive with windows, your new bios will not boot up with an SSD.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...the-bios/page3

here are the steps to roll back your bios.

[fcsoares43]

oooh welcome to the cant boot up after bios update club, get ready to rollback your bios with an old hard drive with windows, your new bios will not boot up with an SSD.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...the-bios/page3

here are the steps to roll back your bios.

I got in a Asus 2 SSD 850Evo and the 860Evo, i have that issue in many updates i turn off one of them and it work if i tried after the installation it was not possible until one day after 3 months of searchs i found an article i follow that steps and today the too of then work perfectly side by side, and they are sata 3 not nvme , i am going to try to find the work arround and post were i don´t forgot

Regards

[raju2529]

sorry for the issues caused by bios.

i would recommend you to reset the BIOS after every major upgrade of bios.

or downgrade to previous bios version

or get new latest bios from devcice manager


I am using 3 storage devuices , one Samsung 860 evo sdd 250 M.2 with latest firmware , one Seagate hdd 5400rpm 2TB ,, and one Toshibe hdd 1TB 5400rpm. Still no issues on asus vivobook 15 r542uq-dm153 .

[john_matrix]

Thanks all for yours answers!

BIOS revert to v302 (with winflash.exe /nodate) and everything is working like before
Thanks ASUS to post buggy BIOSes :-/

[disappointing]

Hi guys,

I am also affected by this, same laptop. With FW 3.06, the system would not boot anymore until I took out the M.2 Sata SSD.

I'm sure I've wasted over half a day to come up with a solution for this cluster-f*ck (open laptop, take out M.2 and HDD, put in an old HDD and reinstall W10, flash back old 3.02 BIOS, disable Firmware Device in Control Panel, etc. ) But that stupid Windows Update would just reapply the BIOS-Upgrade after every reboot. After around 5 iterations of trying different things I gave up.

I opened a ticket at Asus Support, but of course they were worthless. The only reply I received was that I am out of warranty....

Fast forward to yesterday, when I by chance tried to use a NVMe M.2 SSD and voilà, this worked, the system is booting again!

So now instead of a $1500 brick I have a working system again, thank god.

It's sad to say, but I can not really recommend Asus wholeheartedly anymore... after the power drainage fiasco and now this ... their support is really lousy and QA seems to be next to non-existant.

[AFRIKA]

Hi guys,

I am also affected by this, same laptop. With FW 3.06, the system would not boot anymore until I took out the M.2 Sata SSD.

I'm sure I've wasted over half a day to come up with a solution for this cluster-f*ck (open laptop, take out M.2 and HDD, put in an old HDD and reinstall W10, flash back old 3.02 BIOS, disable Firmware Device in Control Panel, etc. ) But that stupid Windows Update would just reapply the BIOS-Upgrade after every reboot. After around 5 iterations of trying different things I gave up.

I opened a ticket at Asus Support, but of course they were worthless. The only reply I received was that I am out of warranty....

Fast forward to yesterday, when I by chance tried to use a NVMe M.2 SSD and voilà, this worked, the system is booting again!

So now instead of a $1500 brick I have a working system again, thank god.

It's sad to say, but I can not really recommend Asus wholeheartedly anymore... after the power drainage fiasco and now this ... their support is really lousy and QA seems to be next to non-existant.

i reported the bios to asus and they removed it from the asus webpage and windows update, i suspended the computer during that time, so it didnt apply the bios again when booting up again.

[CRyback]

And Asus help desk is ZERO help. I can roll the computer back to 3.02 BUT windows insists upon installing 3.06 on next reboot, and while I have suspended updates, I cannot seem to find the option (via show/hide.cab file) that keeps it from automatically installing 3.06 on the next start up. I've asked ASUS for an updated bios that bypasses the 3.06 junk (they won't), and I am unable to keep this BIOS from being loaded. Any guidance you all may have would be appreciated.

[raju2529]

I am using 3 disks in r542uq-dm153

Samsung 860 Evo 250gb m.2
Seagate 2tb sata
Toshiba 1tb sata

[nytwolf45]

Do I get it correctly that BIOS 306 does not work?
I've recently updated to Windows1903 as windows now force the update. After struggling with installation, I managed to install 1903 via usb fresh install. I have issue wherein I get stuck in the ROG splash screen whenever I restart. I was hoping the new bios306 would fix this restart problem. Any other steps in fixing this troubled laptop?

Updating to 1903 problems are getting stuck at 85%. Restarting freeze at ROG splash screen.