Help: Blind flash on Acer

Beedhaa · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject:

Hi,

sry for my bad englisch, im german Very Happy

I found this thread through google. I have an Acer Aspire 1640z notebook, and tried to install MS Vista. After installing i had much problems with my graficcard and other hardware. so i tried to flash my bios with the new microsoft vista bios file of acer.com. After flashing the bios my notebook screen was black, but the pc was able to boot. I bought an external usb floppy drive. Then i loaded the Phönix recovery flash program and flashed my bios back. All worked perfectly, if someone needs help, try to mail per icq (282-465-187). Thank you all, for this nice work Smile

I love you Smile

bye

jorhe · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:12 am Post subject:

Hi,

I own an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop. The BIOS I downloaded from Acer contains three WPH files. I tried them with the aforementioned method but none of them works. Anyone that has the same model? Could possibly post a link with the backup bios file from such a laptop...?

Regards

zouzanda · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:33 pm Post subject:

hey can someone tell me were i can find a bios for acer extensa 6600 cz im not finding it on the website of acer Sad

plz help i have the same prob

GvL · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject:

You can try the MS Vista BIOS mentioned on this page:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/ex_6600.html

zouzanda · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

man when i used the vista bios i got this problem so i need the old bios back what can i do Sad

zouzanda · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

lets say i wanna use this bios is there a way to use it on a cd not on a flopy??

paradigm · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: acer 4104 WLMI

alright guys another fatality

it has taken me some time getting to this website after going through ton's of website

thing is

the solution worked.....kinda

welll atleast the first time, i made a flashable USB drive (as a HDD cuz the floppy image did not have enough space to keep the bios as well) to cut a long story short, started up the PC as indicated in your tutorial...the PC went through some beeps, started reading the USB flash drive, and then restarted a couple of times....all this i was not depressing the ctrl+esc (this worked, the Fn=esc..just gave the error beeps and nothing else) ...thing is i got that grey boot up of the screen...no image...just the grey...then the PC went into an auto cycle of rebooting and reading and restarting without showing a logo or anything.....went on for a minute
when..i finally shut it down
i am now back to the dark (no power to LCD mode) can you guys help me any further.....i am trying to get a USB floppy drive but i cannot find it in my city

i am going to try and fly it in abroad.... anything else i can try for the meantime

i really would like this pc to boot...it is not mine, but 1 we bought for my younger sister, to use during her study periods in london..... now due to a mistaken bios flash (yep the same confusion for the 1640-4100 series) i am stuck with this dead lappie

Beedhaa · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

Hi everybody,

jesterday nthrx709 added me in icq. He sayd the Crisis disk link is offline, because of this i will up it on rapidshare or something if someone needs it.

Mfg
Beedhaa

PS: If someone needs a cheap USB floppydrive then leave a answer.

ubernoir · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

the crisis disk is still offline so could you post that link for it

zalepak · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: blind flash on acer aspire 5315

Hi!
I'm new man on forum. Sorry for my english, i'm from Poland.
I discoverded on that great forum many information about blind flash but everybody describes that procedure using phlash utility from phoenix. But my laptop uses Insyde bios. I dowbloaded from acer ftp server dos utility "flashit" but it doesn't work for blind flashing.
If you have Insyde bios there is diskette with only one file. Someone from acer prepared that diskette for me. I think many of us may need that.
So if someone want to sent it i leve here my email.
zalepak(#at#)gmail.com
My acer is alieve! It works! Shocked

ubernoir · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

awesome ms dos boot disc + PHLASH16 + autoexec.bat with just that one line of code from Tolik746 and the correct bios
worked --- it worked first time
i feel like a laptop necromancer -- i have raised the dead HAHAHA

valente · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: Bios help on Aspire 1690!

hi all,

without doing any kind of bios update my computer died on my hands two days ago.The problem its the same, i turn on the computer and i don't get any sign(black screen,lights on...and any sign of live).

i am trying to restore the bios with your tutorial using a USB pen drive
but without sucess.

What i would like to ask is:

I can do it with a [b]USB pen drive[/b] or i need a [b]external floppy drive[/b](linked throught usb of corse)?

if i use a usb pen drive how can i set the computer to startup from there?
(I don't see anything, only a dark screen!So i don't have access to the bios setup!!!!)

If i use an external floppy drive the computer will startup from there???
(if the computer don't read the pen drive how it will read the external floppy drive once is connected with usb????)

p.s - the cdrom drive make some sounds, but from what i have read its not a solution, isn't it?

Thank for your help!!!

aka370 · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: Acer BIOS beep 4-1-1

Forgive for intervention. Acer Aspire 5024.
The BIOS beep code 4-1-1 appears about bad contact of a wire Touchpad.

tvee67 · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

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This forum saved my laptop ACER 1640z !

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou

g2n · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem with my laptop ACER ASPIRE 1640z.

Is possible to use a USB pen drive? How can i do?

Thanks!