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    Bad Bios Flash?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by andyasselin, Jan 14, 2007.

  1. andyasselin

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    Hello any one had any lucky recovery acer laptop after bad winpflash i hope i will be able to do recovery on it use bios floppy just wonder if any one else had any lucky recovery from bad flash?


    laptop is aspire 5672 pretty nice paper wait right now oh well :> got get my hands on usb floppy try flash
     
    andyasselin, Jan 14, 2007
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    Well decide noth both with floppy method since i had bit time left warrenty so decide just send it in

    out of curiosness how bad was you laptop no post or anything on screen?

    mine is died no beeps nothing
     
    andyasselin, Jan 14, 2007
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    I had this happen to my TravelMate C300 (tabletPC)

    I was reinstalling Windows, and downloaded the drivers from the ACER Site.
    One of the downloads was a Bio's Flash.

    I ran the Flash, and now the computer doesn’t Post/Boot.

    My CD-Rom drive did powers up, and i get some lights on (indicators)
    But nothing happens.

    I took the computer to a local PC shop, i asked the to Remove the Cmos Battery... Wait... Then put it back in (reset the cmos). But this did not help.
    I got the computer back worst then when i gave it to them. Now the PC doesn’t show Power At all.

    But i just got bought a new Mainboard, it should be here soon.
    Sucks i had to spend 300.00

    I have my computer taken completely apart, so i am moding it.
    Full Paint + AirBrush..
     
    TomTomTuning, Jan 14, 2007
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  4. andyasselin

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    Curios did you try floppy flash on you laptop i have,nt yet causee i did,nt have usb floppy handy it will problay be pickup before have chance to test flash from floppy disk useing phoniex recovery crisdisk

    have you try boot from usb floppy does light go on?

    if you still have old mainboard in you machine
     
    andyasselin, Jan 14, 2007
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    Funny talk to acer today about laptop being died bad bios

    they say they replace board wow guess they ether don,nt know about floppy recovery or the bios was too screwed up to anyways appently i get new mainboard for my laptop and it burned in test ran on it
     
    andyasselin, Jan 25, 2007
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    got my laptop back with new mainboard i guess no more messing with phoniex bios editor and nice note say pls update you sound drivers
     
    andyasselin, Feb 2, 2007
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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    I'm too scared to Bios flash.

    I thought about it, but I also took Acer's post to heart. Which read "Do not flash unless customer service tells you to do so."

    Can anyone tell me the benefits of doing so? And why the process Bios flashing seems to crash alot (from what I read)?
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Feb 2, 2007
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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    Thanks, I guess I'll also be looking for the dual EEPROMs feature on my next laptop.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Feb 2, 2007
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    Flash bios is not that bad winpflash is pretty good
    the bios i was flashing was a moded one
     
    andyasselin, Feb 3, 2007
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