OK. In my eargerness to help my stock G75VW-BBK5 (Win 7 Home Premium) do better in the recent Super Pi competition, I updated some things--to include updating my BIOS to 221 (I flashed it from within Windows, but don't remember which package I used atm--it owuld have been the one supplied by ASUS or something internal to Win7...I didn't install anything new to do so).
Everything seemed to go well, with no apparent glitches (even the BIOS flash). Looking into the BIOS options now, I find that I have many fewer change-able options (most are grayed out such that I cannot change those settings). The list of the options I still have the ability to change are:
Main tab - I CAN change the date & time lines (& access level is "user"--don't know if that changed)
Advance tab - I can only change the bottom 4 listings
Boot tab - I cannot change ANY of the options - all are grayed out
Security tab - I can change the user password & can change the I/O interface security settings
Save & exit tab - the only options I can choose are the "Save changes & exit," Discard changes & exit," "Save changes" & "Discard changes."
I remember having a few more options to change prior to this latest flash. I'm thinking that I may need to re-flash, but as this is the BIOS, I'm reluctant to try anything further for fear of screwing things up worse.
I have also noticed that no matter what I do to try to disable both Turboboost & to disable the touchpad, they both are active again after restart. I don't know if this is the "new normal," or if this is another symptom of the problem.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated! Thanks.