Please, if anyone can help me I would be so appreciative and thankful. Its feature meant only for emergencies it may void your warranty, so use at your own risk. The computer shops are just keen to sell me a new expensive replacement laptop, and so not much help there either. The Acer Aspire One has its own built-in BIOS recovery routine, allowing it possible to flash the BIOS even when the system doesnt boot anymore. Acer Aspire One 522 1. All Compaq/HP Phoenix Bios based old notebooks, some Acer Aspire with.
#ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS FLASH INSTALL#
I suspect I am trying to install the wrong bios file, and also installing it the wrong way as well. Plug in the USB flash drive that contains the BIOS update file into an available. (This is the absolute extent of my coding knowledge).
#ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS FLASH UPGRADE#
I have also since ruled out the screen and the cmos battery and clearing the static without the battery.Īpparently after downloading the latest bios upgrade file (ZQ1_122W.executive) Acer support onto a flash drive, I used FN + Esc then the Power button to install the above bios file.Īfter this failed, I added a notepad with Autorun in brackets and then ( open = the bios e x e )file, as well and saved it as an I N F file, along with the executive bios file and retried. I have read that it is most likely a corrupted bios. would be embedded with the bios but flashing the bios with one that was downloaded of from intels website. This happened a few starts after cleaning some virus with MS defender. Note: BIOS flash utility for Windows, only to be used with Award BIOS (Version 6.x for Desktop systems) Aflash Version 3.11.21 Note: Only to be used with Acer BIOS Version 3.x and 4.x Aflash Version 2.15 Note: Only to be used with Acer BIOS Version 2.x Stepping Code update for Acer Bios Version 4.x Stepping Code update for Acer Bios Version 3. It appears the Acer Aspire line has AMI Bios. Hello, I have an Acer Aspire Timeline X 5820TG, with the black screen of death.