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Forgottenbhs · ‎10-25-2012

The 214 bios for the G55 series is very unstable. It will cause BSODs with the latest NVIDIA Beta driver and i noticed a slight drop in FPS with the 306.xx drivers. I had to revert back to the 209 bios in order to get stability back.

Asus G55VW-RS71 - i7 3610QM, 8GB DDR3, GTX 660M 2GB, 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD

c_man · ‎10-25-2012

Good thing you could do that. Not very easy with Asus.

I got burned once with G75.

Links:
Sound driver and settings
Asus G55 ang G75 disassembly / teardown guide
Reasons to buy G series
670M OC

rewben · ‎10-25-2012

maybe it will be stable with a fresh install, but i will try that next time 😕

WontonNoodle · ‎10-25-2012

how did you revert back to 209? thanks

rewben · ‎10-25-2012

there are 2 ways to do that. be very careful with this. if you are not sure, it's best if you asked someone with experience to help.

WontonNoodle · ‎10-25-2012

Yeah how did he revert back to 209 though? Or did he just go to 206 then update to 209?

Forgottenbhs · ‎10-26-2012

WontonNoodle wrote:
Yeah how did he revert back to 209 though? Or did he just go to 206 then update to 209?

It's actually not that painful. In my case my graphics card drivers were causing the BSOD so just make sure to boot into safe mode and to uninstall the drivers first. Then boot into Windows and install the bios update utility for your notebook from Asus website and follow these instructions.

Asus G55VW-RS71 - i7 3610QM, 8GB DDR3, GTX 660M 2GB, 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD

rewben · ‎10-26-2012

for bios 214, i spent a day to find out that it didn't work for me even if doing clean windows install 😕

my g55 failed to power off when the installation did the first restart.

Warning! Bios 214 for G55.