So I have been enjoying my G751JT until recently. It all started going wrong a few weeks ago when I began feeling extra paranoid and wanted to encrypt my machine. First thing was to find out about bitlocker, and that it wouldn't work as there is no TPM module. I thought I was buying a top machine but ....
So, after that I looked at veracrypt and thought it would work. Well .... first attempt failed because of secure boot. I thought I'd be able to add certificates but that's probably where the real problem started. I deleted the secure boot settings, tried running a github project which failed. I probably should have tried rebooting then, instead I tried again to begin the process to encrypt. This doesn't encrypt yet but sets a special bootloader.
Since then I have not been able to get into the bios / setup, see anything in the normal boot process.
After googling, I found some threads here that helped (
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?82687-bad-g751-bios-flash,
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?55497-G750jh-Bricked-Bios-after-update-solved) but didn't fix it yet.
I tried a winpe environment on a usb drive but no luck. I then tried the ctrl-home ezflash with bios downloaded from asus support. Ok, that works - sort of. It installs and verifies and powers off but nothing after that. I have tried multiple times, with laptop display, vga and hdmi, all the same. The ezflash works Ok then blank screen. The usb key led does show about 5 seconds of activity and then nothing. Caps and num lock led's work. I have flashed with and without the hard drive installed - no difference.
I unplugged the battery and cmos - admittedly initially only for about 2 minutes and put stuff back together, with no change. I then left it all disconnected over night , same result. I tried with a Windows 7 dsic in the drive but that didn't make a difference.
Any ideas? Thanks.
