Lots of warnings and errors in the event viewer.

[Teerex]

Teerex, I'm not quite sure on how to update my BIOS because I have never done that before. And it just seems a little bit risky from what I've heard when googling how to do it.

Sooner or later every owner of a laptop has to go through that life-changing experience. Consider it as a coming of age, and it's better to do it while your laptop is still covered by a guarantee.

Scan a USB flash drive for errors, format it in FAT32 (most are already formatted this way by deafult). Put the BIOS file you downloaded on it and use the BIOS flash utility inside your current BIOS. I updated BIOS's many times, and I have never had an ''incident''. Also, make sure your laptop has a stable supply of power (full battery AND connected to the mains).

 

[0621sammy]

Yeah I'll just need to clear one of my flash drives then do it.

"and use the BIOS flash utility inside your current BIOS."

How do I do that? I don't know anything really about updating my BIOS to be honest. I can get the BIOS update file and that's about as far as I've gotten haha.

 

[Teerex]

Boot the computer with the flash drive in the USB slot. Press F2 when you see the ASUS logo on startup, that should get you inside BIOS. Than just look around without changing anything to a BIOS update section. There, you should be abel to navigate to the file using keyboard arrow keys. The utility in the BIOS should recognize the BIOS file as a valid BIOS image and ... then do as prompted.

I'm citing from memory, it was pretty straightforward and quick when I did it. The only scary moment is when the laptop shut down but did not start up as I expected from my previous BIOS updating experiences. But I turned it on myself and everything was jolly good.

You'll find some tutorials here. The BIOS avenue is option A.

Updating in BIOS is considered the safer method.

 

[0621sammy]

So do you think I should do it? I haven't had any more of the ACPI errors.

 

[gregrocker]

What exactly is the BIOS update for? It should say either on the download page or in a ReadMe file within the downloaded files. I always want to know what it's for because it often is for some insignificant thing (like Language) that doesn't affect me and isn't worth the risk.

I believe the safest method is updating from Windows, but others may differ.

 

[0621sammy]

BIOS 203
1.Fix the bug that 2D/3D switch function should be implemented on power on button (M key) instead of hotkey Fn + C
2.Optimize Aflash2 tool

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Notebooks- ASUS G74SX

That's all it says on the page with the download.

 

[0621sammy]

Don't think this is anything bad probably just a little glitch. When i was resuming from hibernate I received a blue screen for about 2 seconds then it went to normal and showed my user name to click on. (It wasn't a BSOD just a blue screen)

 

[0621sammy]

Oh and I just received another one of the "ACPI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal PCI Operation Region (0x4), Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance."

"
- System

- Provider


[ Name] ACPI


- EventID 10


[ Qualifiers] 49157



Level 2


Task 0


Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated


[ SystemTime] 2011-12-15T00:39:47.509000500Z



EventRecordID 8363


Channel System


Computer iPwnGaming-PC


Security
- EventData






ACPI


0x4


0000000003003000000000000A0005C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary data:

In Words
0000: 00000000 00300003 00000000 C005000A
0008: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000

In Bytes
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 30 00 ......0.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0A 00 05 C0 .......À
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........"

 

[gregrocker]

Do you have performance problems that you're trying to troubleshoot or just want to run with clean logs?

 

[0621sammy]

I'm way to OCD and worry to much about my computer. I basicly just want someone that knows more than me to tell me that there's nothing wrong with all of the errors and stuff i had listed.

 

[0621sammy]

So would you say theres nothing to worry about as long as i dont have BSOS's or performance issues?

 

[gregrocker]

We have nothing to work with until you have performance issues as those errors are negligible except for the ACPI error which I would google the exact text to read all about it.

It's OK to be OCD but apply it to researching the errors by googling their text as there will be dozens of posts in multiple threads to read up on it. This is how you learn about your computer and what are potential problems and not. I winnow out errors this way myself over time, but never expect it to come overnight. Some errors only recently have results when you google them, after months or years seeing them. Almost all will now have some google results, however. There are plenty of other OCD's out there who want clean logs.

 

[0621sammy]

Believe me I've done a lot of gooling too. I couldn't find out a whole lot on the ACPI error. And I just noticed I have two new warnings which I haven't had until now haha oh what fun. Is there anything else you suggest I do or just research it to make sure it's nothing? And Thank you for you're help =).

"Information only. CurrentSoftGridPrereq: Click2Run installation (version = 14.0.4763.1000) is found on the machine; skipping installation..."

"Information only. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Virtualization Handler\CVHSVC.EXE is trusted."

"Information only. Warning: GetPackageInfo failed for '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}'. [SoftGrid Error: 0x0000000000001802 in Module: Core, File: packagemgr.cpp:872]"