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Answer» I just bought an Acer Aspire T180 and I downloaded the bios here, flashed it with the software that came with it, after it flashed it said something about being possibly WRITE protected and that it had failed to flash. So I assumed that I had to CHANGE something in the bios so I restarted my pc. As to booting to CD you need to set the CDRom as the first boot device in the BIOS.I have set the CD drive as first boot and tried with F12 to allow you to choose on boot with no luck Quote from: patio You may want to revert the BIOS to it's default settings as well since you were making changes in there.I have set the bios to default, used the motherboard jumpers to wipe and removed the battery, no luck Quote from: patio Just for future reference there is nothing in the BIOS that produces this message...it is a Windows function.I read that someone else aswell, why is it when I disconnect the harddrive and any other device it still comes up if it is only associated with windows Quote from: ale52 Why did you flash it to begin with?I like to keep everything up to date and thought it would help when I plan to upgrade the ram. I still can't get it passed the verifying stage may have to return it as I don't see this one being sortedDo you have the restore disk?Windows XP disk?something... I am asking in advance because sometimes a low level format can get you back up and running. I do have an XP disk but have already tried booting from it, it doesn't even seem like it is checking the dvd drive. I have removed the hard drive and tried using another hard drive with a good xp setup on. I even unplugged all hardware that wasn't nessecery to boot the pc. Everything seems to lead to the same message Then you appear to have a failed BIOS flash as mentioned earlier in this post.It's a shame too see a nice, new computer ruined by a BIOS flash that most likely was not needed at all. There is a lesson to all here. What motivated you to try a flash on a newer machine?Quote from: street1 Then you appear to have a failed BIOS flash as mentioned earlier in this post.Does that mean its now a dud? Quote from: GX1_Man It's a shame too see a nice, new computer ruined by a BIOS flash that most likely was not needed at all. There is a lesson to all here. What motivated you to try a flash on a newer machine?Like I mentioned before, I like to keep updated and this bios is suppose to fix issues when adding more ram, which I planned to upgrade soon. Now thats not an option If you can return it.....Wish you good luck! Maybe the return will work out. We always warn against flashing the BIOS. When you do the return remember that you don't even know what a BIOS is when they ask. RobertThanks, will try sorting that out today. I have flashed bios a few times before but never with a prebuilt system, I don't think I will be trying it again in a rush if I get this sorted out. Thanks for all the help and support guys, much appreciated Updated is a nice concept but if's not broken and you have no specific need for what an updated BIOS does there is absolutely no reason to do it. Ever.Quote I like to keep everything up to date and thought it would help when I plan to upgrade the ram. I tend to agree with that, but only if the user in question has any experience flashing BIOS or recovering BIOS. There should be a warning message on the support website of your laptop saying "Don't flash unless you're experiencing difficulties".. If not, you should request it to be added.. Try simply resetting your BIOS, if you can still access it. If not, you should contact Acer Support and ask them how to proceed. |
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