Re: New Members - please post your introductions here
Hello, I'm Jonathan (Sunday_Scour) from the northern most tip of the state of Virginia in the United States.
I am upgrading my laptop (ASUS ROG Scar GL703GE-IS74) that I bough in July of 2018. I have finally gotten my life in perspective and know what I want to do as not just a career, but a true vocation: Computer Science. To that end, I am enrolled at a local community college (Laurel Ridge Community College which was, until last week Lord Fairfax Community College) in their Computer Science 4-year transfer program, so that after 2 years, with my associates, I hope to transfer to George Mason University (as a 40-something year old).
I made an emergency landing on https://www.badcaps.net because, in upgrading my laptop, I made two fundamental errors, and I should have known better. First, I figured updating my BIOS from the factory version (after 4 years) could ONLY be a good thing. Second, I did NOT write down the BIOS version I HAD before I flashed the BIOS ROM module with ASUS's "new and improved" BIOS software. As such, the only difference I found was that several useful features seem to have been removed. I can't be entirely sure what was there, because as with many updates, you can't go back, and, after initial setup in 2018, I didn't enter the BIOS very often since then. This put me in a bit of a pickle. I want the old BIOS back, and the ONLY place I can see that has ANY older version is *********om, which charges a fee to download anything.
In snooping around to see if that website is legitimate, I found a discussion on badcaps.net, looked around here, and decided this was a safe place to gather my wits before I screw around with reverting my BIOS to an older version for $6 from a site I only just encountered.
So, that's my story. I'll poke around for information on my model ASUS ROG laptop (see above), and if I DO take the plunge with *******om, I'll post my experience here.
I think I'll crack her (it) open, double the RAM to 32GB (DDR 4 SO-DIMM @2666MHz, 18ms latency), quadruple the SSD from 256GB to 1TB, double the standard hard disk from 1TB to 2TB, and upgrade the network / Bluetooth module to WiFi 6E AX210 / Bluetooth 5.2. THEN I'll worry with the BIOS. Or maybe the BIOS should come first? I don't know. So, I'm glad I found this place. Either way, I shoould be ready for my classes come Fall of 2022.
Hello, I'm Jonathan (Sunday_Scour) from the northern most tip of the state of Virginia in the United States.
I am upgrading my laptop (ASUS ROG Scar GL703GE-IS74) that I bough in July of 2018. I have finally gotten my life in perspective and know what I want to do as not just a career, but a true vocation: Computer Science. To that end, I am enrolled at a local community college (Laurel Ridge Community College which was, until last week Lord Fairfax Community College) in their Computer Science 4-year transfer program, so that after 2 years, with my associates, I hope to transfer to George Mason University (as a 40-something year old).
I made an emergency landing on https://www.badcaps.net because, in upgrading my laptop, I made two fundamental errors, and I should have known better. First, I figured updating my BIOS from the factory version (after 4 years) could ONLY be a good thing. Second, I did NOT write down the BIOS version I HAD before I flashed the BIOS ROM module with ASUS's "new and improved" BIOS software. As such, the only difference I found was that several useful features seem to have been removed. I can't be entirely sure what was there, because as with many updates, you can't go back, and, after initial setup in 2018, I didn't enter the BIOS very often since then. This put me in a bit of a pickle. I want the old BIOS back, and the ONLY place I can see that has ANY older version is *********om, which charges a fee to download anything.
In snooping around to see if that website is legitimate, I found a discussion on badcaps.net, looked around here, and decided this was a safe place to gather my wits before I screw around with reverting my BIOS to an older version for $6 from a site I only just encountered.
So, that's my story. I'll poke around for information on my model ASUS ROG laptop (see above), and if I DO take the plunge with *******om, I'll post my experience here.
I think I'll crack her (it) open, double the RAM to 32GB (DDR 4 SO-DIMM @2666MHz, 18ms latency), quadruple the SSD from 256GB to 1TB, double the standard hard disk from 1TB to 2TB, and upgrade the network / Bluetooth module to WiFi 6E AX210 / Bluetooth 5.2. THEN I'll worry with the BIOS. Or maybe the BIOS should come first? I don't know. So, I'm glad I found this place. Either way, I shoould be ready for my classes come Fall of 2022.
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