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    Acer 5720ZG upgrade to MXM HD3650 DDR3

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by akrylit, Jul 9, 2012.

  1. akrylit

    akrylit Newbie

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    Hi. I've recently bought HD3650 256 DDR3 for my Aspire 5720ZG. The previous card was GF8400 256MB. Replacement was pretty easy, but now there's no display, only screen backlight lightes up. It boots to os or at least starts from CD drive, so I tried blind flashing quite a few video bioses i found round here with no luck at all. Just before replacing card I've updated motherboard bios to latest official one. Is there anything I should try before giving up?

    Let me describe my blind flash method (correct me if I'm wrong).
    -Boot from CD
    -go to cd drive
    -atiflash.exe -p -f 0 bios.rom (where "bios.rom" is exact name of file I try to flash).
    -Reboot...
    -Still nothing on screen

    Can you guy suggest anything to have my Acer up and running.
    Here's link to card I bought.

    New ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 MXM II 256MB DDR3 Video Card * Ship from UK | eBay

    Many thanks

    P.S. I also tried connecting external monitor over VGA connector as well as DVI... still no display
     
    akrylit, Jul 9, 2012
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  2. robbert-h

    robbert-h Notebook Consultant

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    Install the 1.45 black edition bios in the modded bios thread. That would solve the problem i guess
     
    robbert-h, Jul 9, 2012
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