Struggling to flash acer 5920g bios

Can anyone here teach me how to flash my acer 5920g's bios? I've downloaded the bios files from acer.com, but after i unzipped all the files i duno what to do next. Many thanks in advance.

 

If you have no problem with your current BIOS you can skip that, if you really want to do it, read all about flashing BIOS in this forum and get as much info as you can. I am not trying to scare you but there are many people had problems with flashing, if you don't do it carefully,you may brick your laptop. My suggestion is don't do it in a rush, take your time to prepare yourself and plan what to do if anything goes wrong.
However, I can offer you some simple precautions but wait for other members' advice as well.
1. You must close all programs, any open windows and disable AV and any background services.
2.Disconnect Internet.
3.Copy flash32.exe (or similar) to Desktop.
4. Right click flash32.exe & run as admin in your desktop and walk away from your laptop,you shouldn't touch your keypad or shouldn't power it off.
It may look dormant while flashing but you shouldn't lose patience.

 

ack, i forgot to mention i wun be able to run it in windows.

it's a long story that started off everytime i finished reformatting my 5920g with the recovery discs, right after i type in my password and enter into windows and starts auto installing those junk programs. while installing the 4th/20th program, the "on instant arcade", it just stays there for hours continuing trying to install that arcade program and never finishes. i decided to ditch the recovery discs and install xp on my notebook instead, but some person on another forum says i'll need to upgrade my bios since it's too outdate to have the option to change my HDD connection from SATA to IDE. hhe tbh i dun mind if my notebook turns into a brick, it's my old comp anyways.

 

Rotk, I'm glad you came to NBR before doing anything. That guy on the other forum is talking out of his buttocks.

The Acer recovery DVDs will re-load all of the Acer junk onto your system, so you've got the right plan to install a clean version of Windows XP in order to get a clean installation.
But a stock Windows XP installation CD doesn't have the drivers necessary to install to a SATA hard drive - a symptom of its age. Thus, you have three options: force your hard drive into IDE emulation mode through BIOS and miss out on the advanced performance features, "slipstream" the SATA drivers into your Windows XP setup CD so it can detect and install to your drive, or simply ditch XP and go to Windows 7.

Your BIOS should give you the option right away to switch your hard drive from SATA mode to IDE emulation (it's still being connected by SATA, of course). And even if it doesn't, upgrading it likely won't give it that functionality.
The other option, if the BIOS won't help, is to slipstream the drivers necessary for Windows XP to install to a SATA hard drive. There are guides online that will show you how, using a program called nLite. I'd personally recommend doing that, because even if you muck that up, your system will still be semi-functional. If a BIOS upgrade goes awry, you have one expensive paperweight.

NEVER upgrade the BIOS unless something is wrong with it.

 

Many thanx Suigi ^_^, think i'm gonna try out the windows 7 option since i always wanted to try out windows 7 on my desktop long time ago, but never realize i can use it on my notebook instead, hhe

 

Of course! Anything that can run Windows Vista will run Windows 7 better.

 

As a note, the Acer provided software will not flash a 64-bit system for the 5920. Only a 32-bit windows environment will work unless you create a boot disk and flash from DOS.