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    Acer Aspire 5560 series BIOS update - HELP

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lir, Apr 1, 2007.

  1. lir

    lir Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone,

    I've encountered several hardware and performance issues with my
    acer laptop model 5562 WXMi and I would like to update my BIOS.

    I have gone to this link:
    http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5560.html

    And downloaded the BIOS v1.17 version which appears to be
    the latest from the following link, provided by acer's website:
    ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5540/bios/bios%20v1.17.zip


    I would like to know that this is what I'm supposed to use and as far
    as the instructions go I'm supposed to extract it on my Windows XP
    and run the bios.bat file under "normal" windows mode.

    Just to be on the safe side - if all fails and I've corrupted my bios
    is there a way to get around it by flashing with other versions or
    things like that to restore it? What do I do in case of failure?


    Thanks.
     
    lir, Apr 1, 2007
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    lir Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone?
    I'm re-posting, hoping that someone could provide some info on bios firmware upgrades.
     
    lir, Apr 3, 2007
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