Wrong BIOS installed on Acer Aspire 1670

Hi guys!
I know I made BIGGGG mistake but how can I fix it now?

I have Acer Aspire 1670, after I download new BIOS from Acer website I flash BIOS (WinFlash) with BIOS of TM2200/2700. After restart I cannot see nothing on screen. When I turn on laptop I can here 3 beeps (one long and 2 short beeps). I can hear cooler working and DVD drive but I cannot see nothing on screen. I think I need to flash BIOS again with right file but I don't know how? My notebook don't have floppy drive!!

If somebody knows how I can fix this BIG problem please write.
Thanks!

 

You are going to have to call Acer. I doubt it is covered under warranty.

 

I'm living in Europe- Croatia and in my country we don't have Acer support :-(

So maybe somebody know how can I fix it by myself!?

 

I did the same thing to a averatec. But it was able to boot. Do you have the BIOS that fits your model? If you do you have 2 options. Most bios have a fail save mode. It allow for the bios to be reloaded, when you do not have access. Requires a floppy disk with the bios having a specific name along with the updater. But it does not work with most notebooks.

The other option is remove the bios and reprogram it. Or replace it with the currect one. There are services that will sell you a bios chip. I have a programmer that I use for all of my computers when things do not work right. You may find it harder to get the original bios. I had to get a user to read his and send me the file. Took 3 weeks till I fould someone willing to read their bios for me. All were afraid of messing theirs up. Which was not at risk. I'm in the us so it will be difficult for me to help you. Even though I have the bios chips (flashram) in stock. It's not difficult to read a bios requires a bootable CD or floppy and a usb stick to write the file to. If you need the procedure let me know and I will post it. Check out www.biosmods.com

 

Thank you for trying to help me!
I have BIOS that fits my model now, but I don't know how I can flash now couse I cannot see nothing on screen. I have WinME Boot CD for DOS boot too, but I don't know did I boot DOS couse I cannot see nothing on screen. If you know procedure please post me.
Thank you!

 

Blue68f100 I hope you will reply soon! COuse I will poison myself with cigarettes couse of nervous my laptop not working!

P.S. Sorry on my english but I hope you understand

 

Doing a blind update is gong to be fun. Your only chance is to use a external USB floppy drive, or bootable CD, which are tricky to setup. You will need to set the floppy up on another pc. The see if it boots you notebook. Yan can determine that by how long the disk light stays on. Your odd will be better with a usb floppy drive, I know its easier to setup. If you have the bios file you need to determine if you don't know who made the bios, Award, AMI, Phenoix. The best way to do that is have another user tell you or use notepad and look in the file. DO NOT ALLOW NOTEPAD TO DO ANY TEXT FORMATTING, Do this with a copy. Then you make a bootable floopy (pc-dos) with the updater and bios file on it. Laptops takes a special utility, because of there unique setup. The utitlity for my AMI BIOS was F82745. The cmd line was like this "f82745.exe filename.bin" . In most cases the mfg supplies it with the BIOS FILE, or instruction on how to flash it. My display worked, but not corectly in XP. Does not matter, you can create a bat file which executes the cmd line when the floopy boots.

If you can not boot from a floppy or CD you will be required to remove the bios from the MB and have it programed with a burner.

 

Thank you blue!
I'll try with USB floppy!

 

When you make the floppy create a bat file that will do the cmd line bios update with out any interaction. Some updaters require cms line switche to automate. If you use the original updater you should be OK. You will also have an idea as to long it will take.

 

I had a similar problem. I have a Acer Aspire 1690 and I downloaded the BIOS update for it from the Acer website, after installing it and rebooting, there was nothing on screen. It seems to boot fine and I was able to login to Windows without the screen.

After searching the web for a solution, I didn't find anything except for this forum and I had no floppy, USB or otherwise. A thought came to my mind since the machine boot into Windows and luckily I had remote desktop turned on. So I remote desktop into the machine and restored the old BIOS. Maybe you can try the same thing. Remote desktop into the laptop and restore the old BIOS.

 

And HOW did you manage to rewrite the BIOS if the machine didn't boot in the first place?

Remote desktop? This is a program that runs under an OS. If the machine does NOT boot then how can you get in the OS, start that service/daemon, and perform the update?

 

Thank you for try to help me Alan, but unfortunatly, ,my laptop don't booting windows. I try with external monitor but that not working in my case. I don't know write BAT file so I give laptop to my friend to try with that like Blue said.

No lucky yet!

 

Blue, can you write BAT file for me if I mail to you original BIOS file for my laptop?

 

My machine did boot up fine but there was nothing on the display or external monitor.

Like I said above my machine boot fine and started Windows XP.

 

Yes Alan Cheung, but the original problem was that the guy could not even BOOT the machine, so your solution is in fact NOT applicable in this case.