Bad Bios Flash

[rubberduck]

Hi

My brother gave me his old laptop (Acer travelmate c110) which had an expired trial version of Vista installed on it. I had been unable to install a copy of XP over this and read on a forum that a bios flash might help.

I performed the bios flash via Winflash and it said everything was succesful but now my computer does not post when I switch it on. The power light comes and and the wireless light blinks but nothing shows up on the screen.

Looks like the bios flash must have messed things up so my laptop may be useless now. I will try removing the bios battery but am having a little trouble locating it. Is there anything else I can try? I guess replacing the main board would be more than the computer is worth. Any suggestions?

 

[Teaf]

I doubt removing the CMOS battery will help as the corrupt BIOS is on the actual BIOS chip on the board. If this little chip is removeable then you can remove it and use an external flash tool, which is a piece of hardware, to flash it. If it's soldered into the board then I dont think there is anything you can do unfortunately. As a further note, although isn't really helpful now, but I would always avoid Windows based BIOS flash tools and always flash a BIOS from DOS.

 

[badbob]

It'll be surface mount flash chip, so require a engineer to de-solder and reprograme it.