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    Acer 9300 BIOS failure

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by shade42, Mar 27, 2016.

  1. shade42

    shade42 Newbie

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    Following on from the post here:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/acer-9300-bios-failure-and-recovery-tips.353510/
    I wanted to add a few things (I presume there's some reason why forums lock old threads, but I've never found out what it is).

    Like many people, it seems, I updated an Acer Aspire 9300 with the latest BIOS, version 1.20, which bricked it. As soon as the BIOS was flashed the flashing program produced an error message and the trackpad stopped responding. On rebooting, I had just a black screen with a cursor in the top left.

    Using a phoenix crisis recovery disc to reflash with an earlier BIOS did not work - the machine read the disc, but it seems then did nothing with it.

    I got the machine working by removing the extra 2GB SODIMM that I had installed, returning it 1 x 2GB SODIMM. I then flashed to BIOS v1.19 in the normal manner and reinstalled the extra RAM, which worked fine.

    The Acer website only offers the broken v1.20 BIOS! I found other versions here:
    ftp://ftp.acer.co.uk/notebook/aspire_9300/bios/
     
    shade42, Mar 27, 2016
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