Asus G73JH BIOS Admin password

[OverclockedGod]

Well, a frustrating issue happened to me tonight. I decided to flash my G73 from 209 BIOS to 211 BIOS. Before flashing I went into BIOS just to check settings, I didn't change a thing. Booted into Win7 Pro x64 and used Winflash to flash to 211. (Using Winflash was probably my first mistake). Anywho, flashing was successful, shutdown machine and powered off. I then powered it on and pressed F2 to get into BIOS and BOOM its now asking for a password! If I leave the password blank and press enter, it goes into setup but only as "user." As "user" I cannot change any settings such as boot device priority or HDD security. It shows that there is an Administrator password set but I cannot change it. None of the AMI backdoor passwords work. The password field does not accept any special characters at all (i.e. $ % # @). I e-mailed Asus and have yet to hear back. All I know is that its of the AMI Aptio variety and can find virtually no information on it. Also, when I power it on, I'm supposed to be able to press ESC for boot selection but that requires Admin password. Very ridiculous... I tried flashing same BIOS again using AFLASH from DOS. I had to remove both hard drives and boot from my USB drive. That didn't work, Admin password is still there. I'm scared to flash it back to 209, I don't want to brick it. If I had a choice between bricking it or putting up with not being able to get into BIOS as Admin, I'd make the obvious choice Soooo anyone have any idears?

[1234s282]

ive never heard of this before! Sorry

Admin

[TheWiz]

First, just to be certain, make sure you try all of these.

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Bios-Passwords

The second thing to try would be checking for jumpers that allow your to reset it and removing your CMOS battery for a couple minutes.

Also, at the bottom of this page are tols that try to reveal the password to you, but I have not used them so procceed with caution.

http://www.dewassoc.com/support/bios/bios_password.htm

Thanks,
TheWiz

[TheWiz]

Update: I can modify your BIOS so that anyone can modify the options for changing the password, its a pretty simple fix.

Thanks,
TheWiz

[OverclockedGod]

Update: I can modify your BIOS so that anyone can modify the options for changing the password, its a pretty simple fix.

Thanks,
TheWiz

Thanks for your reply! None of the passwords listed on "Bios Passwords" page worked. If you can modify my G73 BIOS, you'd be my hero! Oh, and I'd donate!

---

I downloaded G73JH BIOS from http://support.asus.com

[TheWiz]

Ugh! After I downloaded and tried my trick I realized this is one of the ASUS bioses that doesn't open up in a single tool I have!!! I'm going to have to either find a way to open it or see what else I can do.

Thanks for your patience,
TheWiz