G74SX BIOS v.204

[Clarkis117]

Months ago in a not too distant past... I was fighting with ASUS customer service over that fact they seemingly were ignoring the Intel Sandy Bridge Mobile Platform Specification Update, This Thing, which introduced AES-NI support and other things for various sandy bridge mobile CPUs. The 204 BIOS was supposed to address this issue but it never materialized on the Asus download site, but it materialized after numerous customer service requests, complaints, and phone calls. So, I have decided to release if myself, for everyone and anyone to use. I have been using it for well over 6 months now with no stability or performance issues to report.

This is the email that was sent to me with the 204 BIOS attached to it…
“Ask and ye shall receive. I was just passed the attached BIOS update for the G74SX about 10 minutes ago. I'm told it will enable AES-NI in the BIOS. You should take a minute to log back into the ROG forums to thank MarshallR@ASUS (do it via PM if you want) because from what I'm seeing in this email chain, he was pushing to get this BIOS revision made back in September, and was singularly responsible for it getting made. Scott Billings Asus Customer Loyalty Email: cl-scott@asus.com “

I installed it using easy flash in the BIOS menu, if you plan to update please use the easy flash guide stickyed in this forum. Make sure you are not having any power issues, battery fully charged, power supply plugged in and working, and no extraneous power grid issues before flashing your BIOS.

This is use at your own risk, I can’t make any guarantees. ASUS and I are not responsible for any bricked machines.

The 204 BIOS is downloadable from my SkyDrive, Here
Extract the file and follow the Easy Flash guide

Clarkis117

[Almighty1]

I downloaded and installed 2.04 bios as well using the EZ Flash method and all went well. Seems like both 203 and 204 are dated in September or basically once a year. If ASUS actually supported the G74SX, we would probably be at 207 now. Don't really notice any difference yet.

[Lauda]

So this v204 only enables AES-NI? Is there anything regarding throttling issue or maybe RAM support of 1600MHz for all 4 slots?

[Almighty1]

No, because I have 204 and I just installed 4 x 8GB (32GB) G.Skill PC2133Mhz memory and it's still running at the slower speed of 1333Mhz.

[ThatsBS]

I know this is an old thread, but was wondering if anyone has 32gb at 1600mhz yet. I have the 3de version and was looking at other laptops. Most don't offer a screen at 120hz. I do think its truly amazing. Even though this laptop is old its pretty good. I'v had it in the desert for 6 months and it performed very well (Alot of other laptops failed due to the environment by overheating). Now i'm wanting to try and have this last a bit longer and the upgrades for it are very cheap, so i think its worth it. Also how does it perform on windows 10?

[grcuser]

Thank you for sharing the 204 Bios update.