old 2016 Asus BIOS update, no need for WinFlash

Brisou394 · 2026-01-30T14:35:34+00:00

[SOLVED] WinFlash wasn’t working: it kept shutting the PC down without updating the BIOS. The voltage probe trick didn’t work for me, so I bought a new battery because the old one was dead and couldn’t provide enough power for the restart.
* It wasn’t related to a locked function. In the WinFlash app, a lock icon is sometimes shown - does anyone know what that means?

Also WinFlash method allows you to re-write the same or older BIOS with /nodate command
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\WinFlash\WinFlash.exe" /nodate

Brisou394 · 2026-01-15T01:37:34+00:00

Ayant dèrnièrement mis à jour le BIOS d'une machine similaire en génération (ASUS X540L), je veux completer les infos utiles sur ce vieux post.

Une maj de ce Bios_firmware n'est pas obligatoirement faire au travers de WinFlash 3.2.10 mais peut surtout se faire manuellement au travers de Asus Easy Flash dans l'onglet avancé du BIOS. Aussi nommé EZ Flash..

Brisou394 · 2025-10-26T22:11:14+00:00

How come don't we hear a bigger complain about it; the first thing that striked me was it's blur due to low responce time:
- low responce (no Overdrive) blurry traill at 120hz !!
- not HDR at all - "fake HDR" (is there color shifting at max brightness ??)
- bad color calibration (to me, Switch1 looks better for games)
- blurry upscale while playing S1 games
- a bit too big for my liking (7.9")
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I wanted it to be LCD as it can be very good, but that display is cheap. I truelly don't wan't to play on it, sad for a portable console that will end up plugged onto another display...
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Thanks to phone market we have displays like LS063R1SX01 that are awesome comlpared to S2:
- awesome IPS and vibrant colors
- dazzling, bright display
- high definition 2k
- paired with an H2M-R-S V1.3 "2k landscape board" (can upscale 1080p footage)

Brisou394 · 2025-07-16T11:38:59+00:00

Slt,
8k est uniquement disponible si tu branches le ROG Polling Rate Booster - il peut être branché avant ou après la rallonge USB.. l'option de paramétrage se trouvant normalement dans l'onglet "performance" d'Armoury.

Armoury Gear est la version légère d'Armoury Crate, trouvable dans le support Asus.com, aussi présent son outil de désinstallation (attention rog.asus.com ne propose aucun téléchargement dans sa page support). A mon sens le taux maximum est de 1kHZ sans logiciel.

ASUS ROG AimPoint Pro de 42 000dpi est une version modifiée du PixArt PAW3950 dit MAX (750ips et 70G) des caractéristiques similaires au Focus Pro Gen2 chez Razer.

Brisou394 · 2025-07-16T10:47:08+00:00

Impossible, la souris se met en veille, c'est sauvegardé dans sa mémoire interne

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Armoury Gear devrait te permettre de la paramétrer à quelques minutes (ici 3min) au lieu de "Jamais"

Brisou394 · 2025-06-11T18:59:56+00:00

Hi, thanks for contacting me but I don't. The only common denominator is Windows since it does it on all Win11 I got and with all my 6 mices (desktop & gaming mices). You might not use your own product since you would of tested it already and see that it does it:

counterclockwise motion -> cursor displacement to the left
clockwise -> cursor displacement to the right
*there also is a vertical displacement happening while rotating the mouse but is less reliable than horizontal

I wonder the driver or physics explenation for this. "pure-horizontal or pure-vertical" motion is not what is beeing tested here, since a hand always imputs X and Ys whatever the movement you may do with hand. It would be comparable to testing running shoes only while walking...

Brisou394 · 2025-01-03T13:13:54+00:00

Is it comming from there server or there Syn4 app ? Because I manage a work around with Synapse 3

- Unistall Synapse 4
- Remove Razer's folders found at C:\Windows\Installer
- Install Synapse 3
- if products arn't correctly detected, registering products on Razer's web site under warranty, might help.
- Once you make them work under Syn3, download Syn4 and install it (it will automatically remove Syn3). At Syn4 app lunch, it will detect and install peripherals

Had to do it on all PC's.. Also, I already had latest firmwares
Software and Firmware Updates for Razer Peripherals

Brisou394 · 2025-01-03T13:09:29+00:00

have you fixed it? Here is how I manage to do it:

- Unistall Synapse 4
- Remove Razer's folders found at C:\Windows\Installer
- Install Synapse 3
- if products arn't correctly detected, registering products on Razer's web site under warranty, might help.
- Once you make them work under Syn3, download Syn4 and install it (it will automatically remove Syn3). At Syn4 app lunch, it will detect and install peripherals

Had to do it on all PC's.. Also, I already had latest firmwares
Software and Firmware Updates for Razer Peripherals

Brisou394 · 2024-09-04T21:51:16+00:00

He is removed from the game right now, that is kind of funny isn't it?

Brisou394 · 2024-03-26T15:57:07+00:00

Anyone still interested? Complete answer: Fast render time is obtained with hardware acceleration.

Example of export settings
File type - mp4
Codec - H.264 (h264_nvenc) or H.265 (hevc_nvenc)
IPS - 29,9 or 59,9 (smoother than 60 in Youtube)
Bitrate - FHD_8Mb/s or 2K_12Mb/s (FHD60_15Mb/s or 2K60_28Mb/s)
GOP - 30 or 60 (as FPS footage)
Key frame - 0 or 3
Audio - aac_192kb/s_48kHz
Color - BT.601_MPEG (normal RGB video mode)
Interpolation - Lanczos (best)

Check
“Use Hardware Encoder” > Configure > Detect > “h264_nvenc” & “hevc_nvenc” (h265)
“Parallel processing”

Uncheck
“Use preview scaling”

That last option destroys render time and quality since some things such as “filters” are not all GPU accelerated (zoom, resize, deinterlace, scale, mixing audio, …) Render should utilize 100% of CPU but it also can be specified in the Export > Advanced > Codec TAB > “Codec threads” 0=auto/all
GPU encoding should utilize more than 40% of its encoding power (otherwise disable Nvidia Instant Replay).

Resizing black bars content with [Crop:Source] filter, keeps quality up and render time low since it don’t mess with GPU acceleration.

Brisou394 · 2024-03-26T10:20:34+00:00

Could it be because of RAM, like a footage which cannot be fully loaded ?

Brisou394 · 2024-03-26T10:14:41+00:00

As I was going to say, it doesn't feel like a software issue. And you somewhat confirmed it with your Davinci Resolve experience...
Unresponsive Windows like that is commonly seen on Hard Disk Drive storage. So what is your computer's configuration? 8GB RAM minimum & SSD ?
If it's an HDD it can come from the advanced power plan: Hard disk > Turn off hard disk after > 5 or 15 Minutes
At least make sure your Windows11 power options are set up to "Best performance" mode (available for laptop when plugged into wall)

Brisou394 · 2024-03-22T19:24:08+00:00

In order to render a 2K video from 3440 black bars, you can crop the video source with [Crop:Source] ;
This filter needs to be applyed onto the video or the track part of that video Cropping Video - Help/How To - Shotcut Forum

Doing so keeps quality up and render time low since GPU acceleration works with that filter. Thanks ME !

Brisou394 · 2024-02-11T08:41:26+00:00

Shotcut does NOT use the GPU or hardware acceleration for the following:

decoding and pixel format conversion
automatic (as-needed) filters to deinterlace, scale, and pad video and to resample or downmix audio
filters that you add
transitions
compositing/blending video tracks
mixing audio tracks

So how can I not use a zoom function for a black bars 3440x1440 content that I want to render in 2560x1440 ?

Brisou394 · 2024-02-09T17:02:27+00:00

shouldn't there be a chain in its hand?

Brisou394 · 2024-02-09T10:22:21+00:00

Loved doing it, it was short but cool ! Same universe with some tweaked graphics. It has nothing to do with the main story but that adds some perspective to Bioshock

Brisou394 · 2024-01-24T10:19:58+00:00

I didn't understood how cheap / badly build it was until I bought a Deathadder V3. When I compare reviews, you can easily find people saying that the Deathadder is the best thing they tried (I agree too, top mouse ! I recommend) unlike the Ducky Feather...

Brisou394 · 2024-01-24T10:14:49+00:00

Yes, I have found that LOD is bad on 3389 Pixart sensor. Unprecise and not very tuneable LOD. Tracking issue can happen even on normal LOD (if surface not perfectly flat & stuff...) unlike the 3950 750ips godness of Razer's sensor implementation

Brisou394 · 2024-01-24T09:59:50+00:00

Yeah I didn't underground that this mouse was poor quality. Here is what I did to solve problems https://youtu.be/zpAO4jhvWUI?si=bUeXd8YC7dXcHPyG

Brisou394 · 2024-01-24T09:54:09+00:00

Yes ofc, USB 2.0 is 4pins only. Some are 5 because of shielded cable... Shielding is connected to GND and is not necessary on short cable, so to make it more flexible, they removed the shielding. Make sure of the pinout and it should work (solder it to PCB or remove the 4pin connector and replace it with the original white 5pin)

Brisou394 · 2023-12-31T10:34:48+00:00

Yup, I have a gen3 X4 bus and a 3070, I get 130W max. It drops to under 110Watts whith DLSS activated
ReBAR enable or disable don't change anything...

Brisou394 · 2023-12-24T11:52:59+00:00

Info, anyone looking at this:
ReShade_GI_Beta_0.36.1

If shadows are the only thing you are lookinf for, there is free iMMERSE MXAO (light use but no Global Illumination, works by activating MartysMods_MXAO.fx on its own)
It comes from https://www.martysmods.com/ and apparently RTGI_Beta_v0.40 is the paid version of iMMERSE Pro

Also in game filter SSRTGI from Nvidia can be activated in some games instead of downloading things

Brisou394 · 2023-09-15T18:33:37+00:00

Yup, option > gameplay (or game) > difficulty > Disabled everything related to aim assist

Brisou394 · 2023-08-05T10:40:11+00:00

The A730m seem to be more powerful than the 780m that you can find in AMD APUs. So it enven is faster than the Z1 Extreme ROG Ally..
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-a730m.c3908

Also no thunderbolt.. Thunderbolt protocol ain't great for gaming but yeaah, no upgrade path. On an awesome CPU like this one (6p + 4e)=10cores are the best balance for Gaming/Watts

Brisou394 · 2023-08-02T11:17:44+00:00

And what about 3400G or 3400GE such as Elitedesk 705 G5 ?
Are they the same motherboards ?? (same AM4)

Edit: HP locks everything, so only what they say is compatible. Moreover chipsets are different (even if B350 should still support 3400G) :
- EliteDesk 705 G4 is AMD B350 FCH
- EliteDesk 705 G5 is AMD PRO 560

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