Notice for owners of the 16" and 17" Recoil

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Heaven251182

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PCS_Chris said:
Hi Heaven,

Thank you for the information. I have uploaded the OEM service tool for you here:

OEM Tool

Installation instructions:

  1. Uninstall the control centre and reboot the system.
  2. Extract the OEM tool to somewhere on your system.
  3. Open up the command prompt as administrator.
  4. Navigate to the folder with the tool using the command prompt and run the tool from within the prompt (rather than double clicking).
  5. After the tool has run, reboot the system again.
  6. Install the control centre and reboot the system one last time.
With any luck, this should resolve your issues.

Chris
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Thank you Chris, we will try together with dad when i be there next time.. i will download it now anyway. Regards.
 
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Heaven251182

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PCS_Chris said:
Hi Heaven,

Thank you for the information. I have uploaded the OEM service tool for you here:

OEM Tool

Installation instructions:

  1. Uninstall the control centre and reboot the system.
  2. Extract the OEM tool to somewhere on your system.
  3. Open up the command prompt as administrator.
  4. Navigate to the folder with the tool using the command prompt and run the tool from within the prompt (rather than double clicking).
  5. After the tool has run, reboot the system again.
  6. Install the control centre and reboot the system one last time.
With any luck, this should resolve your issues.

Chris
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hi Chris. I tried OEM tool just now, but nothing changes at all. Problem still here.
 
PCS_Chris

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Hi Heaven,

I'm sorry to hear that. I would then recommend you get it booked in for an RMA so we can have a look at this in-house. If you have any trouble filling out the RMA forms, please get in contact with our customer support team and they'll be able to help you out with it.

Chris.
 
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Heaven251182

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PCS_Chris said:
Hi Heaven,

I'm sorry to hear that. I would then recommend you get it booked in for an RMA so we can have a look at this in-house. If you have any trouble filling out the RMA forms, please get in contact with our customer support team and they'll be able to help you out with it.

Chris.
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No need for it Chris, my dad hold that laptop, he live in EU... to much hessle... maybe in couple of years, when i ask you to change liquid metal on CPU and GPU you can look on it... Thank you for your help anyway. Regards.
 
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For anyone reading this later than when it was posted, with any BIOS flash, you need to get PCS approval first.

They had validated the XMG bios was compatible at the time until they implemented their own fix, that doesn’t mean it is now, and if you flash a BIOS (even a PCS one) without PCS approval and something goes wrong, you’re not covered and it could be an extremely expensive mistake!
 
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PCS_Chris said:
Hi All,

I'm happy to say the BIOS is now available. I have linked BIOS files here. Please follow these instructions in order to update your BIOS safely.

Please note that this is only for the 4080 and 4090 laptops. The lower tier GPU's do not require a BIOS update.

BIOS Files - N.1.22

Preparations

1. Please ensure you have a USB that is formatted to the FAT32 file format and has at least 100MB of free space
2. Download the attached file and extract it to the root of your USB, you should be able to see 5 folders in the root directory of the USB. 16_4080, 16_4090, 17_4080, 17_4090 and EFI respectively.
3. The laptop must remain plugged in and charging at all times throughout the flash to prevent damage to the system.

Flashing the EC firmware

The first step is to update the EC firmware, to do this we will take the following steps.

1. Reboot your laptop and tap the Delete / F2 key to enter the BIOS.
2. Navigate over to the Security tab and disable Secure Boot
3. Insert your USB and press F10 to save and reboot.
4. During reboot, tap F7 repeatedly until you reach the boot selection screen. In addition to your Windows boot manager you should now see a second device that begins with UEFI: *USB name here*. Please boot to the USB.

You should now be looking at a screen that looks something like this:

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5. You will see a list of devices labelled fs0, fs1 etc... which correspond to the physical drives in your system. The last one of these is always your USB, in the example above, I only have the USB connected so my USB is fs0.
6. Select your USB by typing the drive label followed by a colon. For example, in my image the command would be:

fs0:

7. This is where the method changes slightly. If you own a 16" Recoil, you will now type the following command depending on your GPU

cd 16_4080

or

cd 16_4090

If you own a 17" Recoil, you will type this instead (again, depending on your GPU)

cd 17_4080

or

cd 17_4090

8. This is the same for both, now you must type the following command

ecflash

after pressing enter you should see the screen change to the following (note that the fans will ramp up to full speed at this time)

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After this process finishes the system will reboot.

Flashing the BIOS

Fortunately, this step is almost identical to the EC firmware update, so we will copy step 4 to 7 of the EC firmware update.

1. This time, you will type the command

flashme

After you press enter, you should see

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Please allow the flash to complete. After this has done, the laptop will power down and reboot, this could take a few minutes so please be patient. If you are met with a secure boot violation on the reboot of the system, it is because the laptop has attempted to boot to the USB and Secure Boot has been re-enabled. Simply remove your usb and press enter to reboot normally.

To confirm your system has updated successfully please enter the BIOS once more to see if your BIOS version and EC version are as follows:

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(Please note this image is from an older BIOS version, the newest BIOS and EC are N.1.22 and 1.10.00.00 respectively)

If all looks well, F10 to save and reboot! You have successfully updated your BIOS.

If you encounter any issues at all please call our customer support team and we can talk you through it step by step.
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Hi Chris, I got a Tongfang GM7PX9N Recoil 17 with the 4090 gpu in February 2023.

I have never updated the bios but pretty sure I may need to after seeing this and with the current intel issues going on.

My current version in system information is N.1.23A08.

N.1.22 still most recent and updated you they have given you, even since all the trouble with intel regarding 13th and 14th generation?

Requesting approval if needed also.

Thanks @PCS_Chris @PCS Robb
 
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