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    Aspire 5710g BIG bios problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by yepi, Nov 25, 2007.

  1. yepi

    yepi Newbie

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    Hi.. (at first sorry for my english) I have aspire 5710g and after some problems I tried to flash (update) my bios..but when i was updating someting very bad happened to me..power outage, so updating failed..so notebook is dead..when i push Power on button, keyboard lights are running but screen is still black..is any way how to re-flash my bios back..thanks for every help..
     
    yepi, Nov 25, 2007
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  2. Yellow11

    Yellow11 Notebook Consultant

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    As far as i know the only way to solve that kind of problem is a motherboard replacement. If you could fix this problem it would involve replacing the actual flash chip that contains the BIOS with a new one that already contains a full BIOS, and upgrade from there.
     
    Yellow11, Dec 1, 2007
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    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    you can make cris bios recovery disk if you google tell you how

    you need usb floppy to do this
     
    andyasselin, Dec 2, 2007
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