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    bios recovery / usb floppy

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by bere, Jan 2, 2006.

  1. bere

    bere Newbie

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    Well.. it seems that I flashed a wrong bios version.. At POST i get 1long beep, 2 short beeps. Since it still make some noise, I hope that the boot-block is ok, so I want to try a bootable floppy disk, with a nice autoexec.bat that would reflash with the old version!

    Does anyone know if the BIOS recovery (bootable disk, with all commands in autoexec.bat, DOS flasher and bios image .. and a blank screen) is possible with a USB floppy drive? (or.. maybe the CD drive? I don't have a cdrw at hand right now, and with a bootable flashdrive didn't worked!)

    I know that with a normal floppy, it's OK (I did it before, but never on a notebook), but I won't spend money on a USB floppy just for the fun of it (because I'm not sure if the warranty will do it...)

    Thanks!
     
    bere, Jan 2, 2006
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  2. danador

    danador Notebook Enthusiast

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    please post the model nr and maybi what bios do you need
    With respect
    D.I.
     
    danador, Jan 3, 2006
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  3. REDFROG

    REDFROG Notebook Evangelist

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    i dont think a usb anything will work because you need drivers to run the universal serial bus, you should be able to boot from the cd drive though.
     
    REDFROG, Jan 3, 2006
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  4. bigdee

    bigdee Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bootable USB floppy may depend on your BIOS. I would use a bootable CD as REDFROG suggests. That should work.

    However, if your BIOS is corrupt, your machine may not recognise any drives.

    Good luck. Keep us informed.
     
    bigdee, Jan 3, 2006
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  5. bere

    bere Newbie

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    The notebook is an TravelMate2700, the old bios version is 1.9, the new one is 1.12(the failed update) . I have them both!

    My hope is in the bootcore, that is supposed to boot some device, and allow a bios rescue. But.. there's a possibility that it only looks for a floppy device.

    For my bios usb devices should work fine from DOS too, without drivers (at least for floppy drives), but I am not sure that this functionallity is available for this particular case (the bootcore bios rescue)

    Well.. at least anyone can tell me if this problem is covered in the warranty? It was me the one who did the flashing, but I was respecting their instructions.. the funny part is that I have the impression that the bios images were swapped by mistake, by them. (there were 2 archives, for tm2200 and for tm2700. I extracted the one they said it was for tm2700, but the BIOS file in it was.. probably wrong, since it crashed like this. After studying another archive, with the DOS version, I am pretty sure that the right bios image was put in the archive for tm2200...anyway...)
     
    bere, Jan 3, 2006
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  6. bigdee

    bigdee Notebook Enthusiast

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    BIOS Flashing tends to be done at your own risk. May not be covered unless you got the extra Acer cover.

    I think it is a suck it and see situation. Give it a go. Boot from your USB floppy and cross your fingers.

    Give it a go - it can only make things worse.... ;-)
     
    bigdee, Jan 3, 2006
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  7. purelydarksnail

    purelydarksnail Newbie

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    hi bere
    i have done the same thing with my aspire 1672lmi....using the same bios flash as yourself....try this link for some answers ... www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php ...i have been studying it and sort of worked it out but my problem is i dont know where the boot block is on my board......stripped my machine down but cant see anything
     
    purelydarksnail, Apr 13, 2006
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  8. mpcft

    mpcft Newbie

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    mpcft, Nov 26, 2006
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