Ahhhh! Help! Bios update FAILED

Repairing an Acer Aspire 5315 for a friend. Everything was fine, after a reformat and a fresh OS install, everything was going fine. Next step was to install the drivers and have everything back to normal again.

BUT. When installing the new Bios Update, it crashed. Figured nothing of it and it would just be re-run when I started up again.

But no power, no nothing. The laptop won't make a sound, no lights, no nothing.

Since I don't have the money to buy a new motherboard for this friend (student) I'm kind of panicking. Can anyone advise?!

 

Take a look here (bottom of the post) for info on how to recover from a bad flash.

 

tried this method. When pressing Fn + Esc and pressing on power simultaneously, nothing happens. No reading from the disk. nothing. I'm at a loss.

 

Have you tried unpluging laptop,then take out battery,press power button 10 seconds,then install battery plug back in fire it up and see what happens.

 

Yeah. Nothing happens. No power, nothing.

 

Hey I did what this guy suggested http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...overy-using-usb-thumbdrive-3.html#post3904707 worked for me after trying to use a thumb drive. Good thing about renaming the newest bios you don't have to screw around with it afterwards.