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    Acer 6530 Dead after Bad Bios Update

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by exum3d, May 26, 2010.

  1. exum3d

    exum3d Newbie

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    Hi all.

    I need to know how to flash the bios of a Acer Aspire 6530 without being in windows.

    I download the bios update and opened to see how it worked and then accidently shut the zip file that it was in and it crashed, computer froze and now it wont work!

    It load the boot screen and even windows but crashes after mup.sys and brings up an error screen about problems with computer and shuts down. I have tried reinstalling windows but when i get to the hard drive section the hard drive is not there although its there in the boot screen.

    I have tried re installing the bios with the phoenix recovery tool but that didnt work.

    Im guessing i need the Insydeflash tool and some special file name for the bios.

    Any help appreciated! Its my dads laptop :(
     
    exum3d, May 26, 2010
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  2. exum3d

    exum3d Newbie

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    After much trawling through topics i found this quote
    and it worked. I cant believe how much time ive wasted looking for a solution, this is why i only own desktops that i build.
     
    exum3d, May 26, 2010
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  3. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    Let me guess the computer that has the issue ran Windows Xp and you updated the BIOS and the HD mode got resetted to AHCI...
     
    weinter, May 26, 2010
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    BruBoo Notebook Evangelist

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    I wondered that but was confused by this


    This is consistent with windows loading - but in XP safe mode IIRC. Wasn't thinking it would get that far if it couldn't see the HDD . . . .

    It may be the bios just needed something changing and the settings saving again
     
    BruBoo, May 27, 2010
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