The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Acer Aspire 5002 - Bios dead.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Shadow_Fi, Dec 15, 2008.

  1. Shadow_Fi

    Shadow_Fi Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have BIG problem. I wanted to flash new bios into my friends laptop. New BIOS was 3.13, and in the readme there was said, to flash it in dos. But, in the same package there was a WinFlash program. I just wanted to check what it has to do with this bios, or to check the old version of the bios without reboot. But this crap did flash it, or at least it tried to do that automaticly without asking me, and the laptop did hang... It did turn off only by removing the battery, and now its not turning on. Black sreen, and cd-rom gives strange noice, like it tries to search CD inside...Again and again.. Nothing more happens. So can i reflash it some how? Or where is the Clear Cmos jumper? Something to try? Any ideas!? Please help me out.
     
    Shadow_Fi, Dec 15, 2008
    #1
  2. raserdk

    raserdk Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    87
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    16
    Try to burn the bios out to a cd, maybe i will reflash your bios again.
    some computers do have this crash recovery of some sort :) but try it :)
     
    raserdk, Dec 17, 2008
    #2