anyone know how i can modify my video bios in windows?

JamesUK

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Hi, does anyone know how i can change settings to my video card bios or where i could reflash it with a newer or clearer bios?

i flashed my laptop bios recently and since i havnt been able to see anything on my screen during boot up at all, i dont see the post, the logo, the bar that shows windows is starting etc.. the only time i see anything is when windows is about to start and asked for my password, understandably i wanna see this, and also cannot see what i am doing in the bios etc..

I phoned acer and they said basicly i shouldnt have updated my system bios, ok yeh great i know that, they think that a bios i did update contained an update for my video bios and it may have changed a setting within my video bios to now show a display during boot, he recommended i try the external display first to see if i can see anything with that and to try and reset the bios settings to see if it changes anything. I have connected an external monitor and sure i can see the bios and normal startup stuff now through that, but i have tried resetting the defaults and its still the same on my laptop.

I am hoping either a peice of software i can look at my video bios settings in, or if i reflash my video bios this may fix this issue, can anyone let me know their thoughts or how i can go about this?

James
 
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ah kewl it would be great if it was that, would it more than likely be the fn key then one of the f1 to f8 keys, i think at some point i may have tried them im not sure of what other general keys i can try apart from everything lol
do them fn shortcut kets even work on boot?
 
i have tried the fn and f6 key which is my screen on and off, i cannot find any short cut keys for sending video to internal or external display, does anyone know them for a laptop or r they all different.

other than that i dunno what else to try, any ideas?
 
i have tried flashing to the first bios and also to another mid way though plus back to the newest again and it stays the same, just blank.
i can only see anything on boot if i connect an external monitor to the monitor port, jjust nothing on my laptop until it gets into windows then it just appears.
 
:( would reflashing the video card bios not sort it do you think? i am hoping acer bring out a newer bios just incase it sorts this problem
 
ah right, i know my laptop does have the video in my sig i dunno if its fixed in the motherboard though, when i run nitor 4.8, after i read the video bios, this is the settings that there are from what it reads, does anyone know if this looks right? I have posted a img below if it.

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hi russ, yeh i can do that and have tried, i have been in the bios, but unfortunatly there are no settings i can change in there to tell it what to display from, i think my only hope seems to be a newer bios upgrade if acer bring another out :(

can anyone think of anyway to fix this at all, or will i just have to put up with this now?
 
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