Hi mate.

I'm very happy to hear my previous bios worked. In your case you have to insert a valid mac address. You can do It using the bt.exe tool from Asus package (find It on the net) or inserting with FD44.

Hi @Sylar76

Thanks again, I've inserted a valid mac with bt.exe and now network card is working.

Regards

Glad to hear that. Have a nice day mate.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but thought I'd come here as my laptop is driving me crazy.

Psyduck - I've got the same problem as you previously. An Asus N53JQ but with an N53JF main board.

I've got a backup of the corrupted bios.
I've got the official N53JQ bios from Asus.
I have an CH341A SPI programmer

But I am stuck on how to rebuild a new working bios.

Could you provide some basic steps? I've tried inserting the new bios (2MB) into the old corrupted bios but that does not work. The onboard flash is 4MB so it looks like the offical bios is missing the Intel ME info and also the EC?

Any help is appreciated.

Zitat von sam2016 im Beitrag #19

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Sorry to bump an old thread, but thought I'd come here as my laptop is driving me crazy.

Psyduck - I've got the same problem as you previously. An Asus N53JQ but with an N53JF main board.

I've got a backup of the corrupted bios.
I've got the official N53JQ bios from Asus.
I have an CH341A SPI programmer

But I am stuck on how to rebuild a new working bios.

Could you provide some basic steps? I've tried inserting the new bios (2MB) into the old corrupted bios but that does not work. The onboard flash is 4MB so it looks like the offical bios is missing the Intel ME info and also the EC?

Any help is appreciated.

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Sorry @sam2016, I haven't seen the post.
Sylar76 did a bios for me, I haven't the knowledge.

Regards

PsyduckAP, I have a K53SV that got a bad flash. After searching endlessly, I stumbled across this thread and Sylar's BIOS dump is exactly what I need. However, I only have the board serial number. Where did you come up with your MAC and UUID to enter into FD44Editor? There aren't any other stickers on my notebook.

Hi @Nilpo .

I invented the mac. The first one I tried was unsuccesful because I put a random mac address.
Then used the one I got from http://www.miniwebtool.com/mac-address-generator/
The UUID don't remember where i get it from. I think it was totally invented.

Regards

I got mine working but needed a USB hardware flasher. Took a 4mb bios dump of the original bios, loaded that into Intel Management Tools and then injected the 2mb official bios from Asus; built a new 4MB bios and then flashed it back.

Can you link to the correct tool? I'd like to try this method first.

I have successfully flashed this image and my machine is once again bootable. However, the NIC does not work. I've located the MAC address so I'm going to try this procedure again. For some reason, FD44Editor was not working for me. I may have had some settings wrong. In any case, at least I know the image in this thread works. Now I just have to get it working the rest of the way.

Hi @Sylar76



Thanks for this, i have bricked my k53sv and now it is alive because of your file. my vga garaphics cards are working properly, but my ethernet is not working. as i have read all the posts i think the problem is in mac address, please guide me how to inject mac address with FD44editor, or you have any complete binary file please share , i am thankful to you and will be thankful to you,

@shoukat2003 - first you need to know your proper LAN MAC ID, check router logs to see if you can find it (Or look on stickers on the board with bottom of casing removed, and be sure to look under memory sticks too, you may find LAN MAC ID on those stickers.
If you can't find it, do you have a backup of your BIOS before you recovered it? If yes, attach and I will see if I can find your ID for, it may be there, or may not.

thanks for replying. i am sending old.bin file pleease change its extention. i could not find mac anywhere .
edit...
sory couldnt send please send my your email that i send you this file.

@shoukat2003 - old.jpg is attached, got it If you want to upload files you can upload to any free file host and post link here.

Did you check on stickers inside casing, and on motherboard itself (especially near LAN port) for the MAC ID? Be sure to check under memory sticks too as I mentioned.
I can't fix your LAN without the LAN MAC ID. This will be on a sticker on your board, maybe inside the case, remove bottom and look at entire board and under memory, inside inner casing etc.

I tried to find in old.bin BIOS, but for now, can't find due to it's not kept in usual location in this BIOS, so unsure where exactly to look (Plus BIOS broken, so that makes is harder)
It may not be there anyway due to BIOS being broken, but we can check once I know it's usual location in this BIOS.

I found this info block 3-4 times in BIOS (one time only partial of some), but unsure which, if any is the MAC
B7N0BC276902291 = Serial I believe = 42 37 4e 30 42 43 32 37 36 39 30 32 32 39 31
90N3GPD34G2721VT30CU = 39 30 4e 33 47 50 44 33 34 47 32 37 32 31 56 54 33 30 43 55 << IF UUID, then 56 54 33 30 43 55 probably MAC ID
QTCKJA30E12905050 = 51 54 43 4b 4a 41 33 30 45 31 32 39 30 35 30

Maybe MAC 56 54 33 30 43 55 or 42 37 4e 30 42 43 (Two locations) or 51 54 43 4b 4a 41 / 56 54 33 30 43 55 (Four locations) - both are taken from above info
Hard to know, Asus switch this up sometimes, sometimes mac at end of UUID, other times not, and sometimes UUID is mixed up in certain ways in BIOS too. Need source dump from same board, with known correct MAC ID In place to really be sure.

@Sylar76 - do you remember where/which module UUID or MAC is stored in this BIOS? I see MAC is kept within UUID only from Fd44, so I assume like many Asus MAC is at end of UUID

@PsyduckAP - can you send now working corrected dump with your MAC ID left in place, and tell me the ID, so I can find proper location to fix MAC for above user if Sylar76 is unsure of location.
@Nilpo - same as above, or can you tell me the exact hex location, or BIOS module etc, then I can see if I can find users ID from his above bricked dump.