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    acer travelmate 2200 bios

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by winchester169, Aug 23, 2006.

  1. winchester169

    winchester169 Newbie

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    So, flashing my bios failed and now boot gives me one long followed by two short beeps and a black screen. No post data, no BOIS interface, nothing. How can I flash the bios from a USB pendrive or USB floppy or Bootable CD or other since I can not access the BIOS to do anything???

    Thank you
     
    winchester169, Aug 23, 2006
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  2. Talon_Sr

    Talon_Sr Notebook Geek

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    Oooops! This could be serious. How did it fail? Did you reboot during the flashing? You might have if you thought the process was frozen. Sometimes the flashing progress bar doesn't show any activity for awhile and it SEEMS that it was hanging. Were you doing ANYTHING on the notebook at the time of flashing? Any downloads? CPU intensive tasks? These can make a flashing of the BIOS halt. If it was writing to the BIOS ROM at the time the program was exited, you most likely have a corrupted BIOS. If that's the case it will have to be sent in to Acer authorized service and a new BIOS ROM installed( if possible-if it's integrated into the motherboard, it isn't ). You could try clearing the CMOS most likey by shorting it, but... This doesn't sound good, I'm sorry to say. On my desktop system, I use a ROM switching/backup device called BIOS Saviour. It has an identical BIOS chip which contains the original BIOS. Through a toggle switch in the rear of the case, I can select between these two BIOSes. Very cheap too for the protection, against just this type of thing, that it affords. I wish they had this for notebooks. All I can offer is the CMOS clearing attempt. But prepare for the worst.
     
    Talon_Sr, Aug 24, 2006
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  3. laurentio

    laurentio Newbie

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    hello winchester
    i've got the same problem only that my laptop is an acer 2700.
    how did you fix yours?
    any luck with the usb floppy?
    regards
     
    laurentio, Aug 27, 2006
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