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    Acer Aspire 1640 - How to flash BIOS from DOS, not winphlash?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by aaron7, Jun 13, 2011.

  1. aaron7

    aaron7 Notebook Consultant

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    My girl's Acer Aspire 1640's hard drive had a SMART error yesterday so I installed a new WD 80gb IDE that I had bought for another project.

    Problem is, the drive is detected in hieroglyphics in the BIOS.

    The drive is fine as I tested it in another system.

    I downloaded the newest BIOS from Acer's site but it's a Windows-based flash utility.

    Any idea how I could flash this with a standard DOS bootable disk? Hoping that'll fix the problem!
     
    aaron7, Jun 13, 2011
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