Help: Blind flash on Acer

grokos · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

I've tryed more that 100 times.... Surprised

The floppy never start Sad

What the laptop did when I follow the instructions above:

*With pressed FN+Esc when I connetct the power connector a very
short lighup of the battery led.
*When I press the power button (with keys combination always pressed), the power and the battery led light up and a very short light up for the cups lock and num lock led comes.
*The battery,caps lock,num lock led comes off.
*After 2 sec the cups lock and num lock led's liggh up again and then...
the beeps comes Crying or Very sad

USB floppy never start reading !!

amado · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:20 am Post subject: thanks a lot guys

thanks a lot guys, i used the methods u described and managed to return my laptop from the dead.
what happened was, i installed vista BIOS from acer webshite, followed the steps exactly and it said success and then rebooted to give me a blank screen.
bought an external usb floppy drive, did the minidos bootable disk and added the good old bios from acer shite Very Happy

and followed the steps on this thread.
it worked Laughing

thanks a lot for all your help Very Happy

asio · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: Acer Extensa 6602WLMIi

Acer Extensa 6602WLMIi
first of all , thanks to Tolik746 (and whoever else sussed this one out)

I thought, better update the bios as I might want to install vista later. Except the update bios for the 6602 has TWO folders with various bios'es... and NO readme file explaining the differences, tried the first, trashed the machine..

ended up having to get a 2.5 drive convertor off a friend/removing the laptop HDD and saving my original bios to my other pc. downloading the crisis disk, and also buying a cheapo usb floppy drive from pcworld (£15 , pc line one. cheapest i could find anywhere, I was suprised).. re-flashed the original bios, and back to life... then picked the SECOND folder "Extensa 6600 UMA". which works.

I spoke to acer UK support about this problem, they were USELESS. I emailed them a day before, got no response back and still am waiting.wanted me to pay £50 for them to fix it.. ERRMM?? 2 bioses within the zip and NO readme file (very clever for a computer company). They said it wasn't a "warrenty" issue.. errm it is if i want to upgrade to Vista, as a friend explained its best to have the latest bios, as if you re-flash after putting vista on the hardware extraction layer and ACPI is different, and will require a reinstall of vista.

as said before, it will only work if you use a floppy drive.. perhaps they should do a cd version, or perhaps getting £50 of end users is very profitibale for 2 minutes work? (thats just a thought)

In the re-flashing process.. the pc beeped a bit, let it run for a few minutes after it restarted and the screen came back.

The guy who I spoke to at Acer, just kept repeating my fault (that REALLY helped).. I've worked in service for a major computer company's authorised service centre, so not exactly new to this. I've re/flashed so many BIOS's and PRAM's (mac) over the years I should change my surname to "gordon" (geddit ? Wink

) . I'd flashed 3 other pc's in the last few weeks without a hitch.

I really hope this helps someone, because even if you had the right version of bios, there maybe other version of it, and hopefully now they include a "readme" file after my terse phonecall... it seems like its a bit too much effort for them to include one, hopefully my call fixed that.

original shipped bios > sys bios version :s3a28 / kbc version:1b18
new UMA bios > sys bios version :s3a43 / kbc version :1b19

the laptop is 750 centrino/1.73ghz, 533 mhz fsb / 80 gb HDD / 512 MB DDR2... bought at a major supermarket chain. Acer used the cop out its a discontinued model or it's made in singapore.. errm it was bought in the UK with UK instructions inside, so I don't see their issue, its all the same company regardless of where it is.

acer .. nice pc's (I own 2) , but support needs BIG attention, just because I'm ringing up doesn't mean I've only had a pc for all of 2 minutes, very patronising.

asio · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject:

*typo.. that should have been "hardware abstraction level" Embarassed

grokos · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:16 am Post subject:

Is there a way to use this files from a CD?
I tryed with another on USB floppy but the same...does'nt start.
The LED of the floppy never light up Sad

The only device that do something is the CD-ROM.

Can I do something with this?

Thanks

smanager · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:56 am Post subject:

Hello, I'm french and I have same the same problem. My notebook is an Acer Aspire 5610, I have a floppy disk but I don't find the original BIOS. Must I do it with an upgrade like the 3.50 version?
Thanks a lot

Last_Frontier · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

Hi there smanager. I snooped around in the Acer site and this is the latest bios ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5.../Bios%203.50.zip. Just ensure to follow the steps earlyer discribed. good luck Smile

smanager · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:

Hi, your adress doesn't work Sad

cp · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:30 am Post subject:

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5610/bios/

smanager · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

My floppy doesn't work, maybe there is a special type of.

What model of floppy have you???

Last_Frontier · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject:

Mine is a iomega floppy plus. maybe if u try it with your hdd unplugged. It's a
matter of luck.cheers

GvL · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

The following worked for me:
Acer Travelmate 6463 went dead after a wrong WinFlash

I downloaded the Crisis Recovery Disk from http://www.rechner.org/b1800.html then copied bios version V302 (downloaded from the acer website) to the crisis recovery disk directory with the name bios.wph and ran wincrisis.exe creating minidos crisis disk.

Used a NEC USB floppy drive (model: UF0002) (could not get it to work with a bootable CDROM or bootable USB pendrive).

Kept pressing Fn+Esc when turning on the power.
After the diskdrive is starting to be read stop pressing Fn+Esc and you can hear the BIOS.WPH file being read from the diskdrive (no beeps from the laptop). After everything was read it took some time after which the power shut down and when powering up again everything was working fine.

(I had the harddisk removed, but that was probably not necessary).

notwist · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

I have a question to you guys. It’s absolutely necessary an USB floppy disk drive to do this tutorial? My notebook has a built-in floppy drive so I don’t know if it’s necessary (Compaq Presario 920EA).

Otherwise it’s necessary put the same bios version of the notebook in the floppy or can I put a newer or older version.

I’m desperate because I have crucial information on this computer!

Thanks in advance.

Last_Frontier · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

should work with your built in floppy. regerding the version of the bios u should only care if it's for the correct model of the laptop, if it's an older one or newer doesn't matter

notwist · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

Thank you Last_Frontier but my notebook doesn't start Sad

I already tried with several different bios but the computer is dead...
I will send the notebook to a compaq service centre because it´s very difficult for me take off the bios from the motherboard and send it to anyone to reflash it.

Regards.