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    HELP! BIOS

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by danbrow, May 22, 2005.

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    danbrow Notebook Geek

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    I did something stupid and flashed my bios in my 1694 to a lower version, heres the link to the file

    http://csd.acer.com.tw/SI/Download2.nsf/1815c7c6f8aff65d48256bdd0035cffd/a4c724ff860cdf6048256ff8002a13b3?OpenDocument

    And now I get no screen, do I have to send it back or is there something I can do?

    I wish I never did this.

    Dan.
     
    danbrow, May 22, 2005
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by danbrow
     
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    danbrow, May 22, 2005
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    Sweet mother of blah blah....

    I fixed my laptop, booted my hard drive in my friends laptop (we have the same laptops) and disabled the video card, copied his bios, set up vnc and turned off windoze firewall crap, booted back into my system and vnc'ed into my laptop from his, flashed the bios and presto back up and running. bios version 3A17 does not help Linux video issues, if anyone wanted to know.

    By the way this only worked for me because I flashed my laptop with the bios firmware with out ati support, stupid mistake. If you flash your system with the wrong system bios your screwed, but you would have to force it anyway. Hope this information will help someone else in the future.
     
    danbrow, May 24, 2005
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