Well my GF's Acer Aspire 5720 doesn’t always connect to the router at home, so I guessed it was the wireless drivers, as my iPhone and sisters laptop always connect fine.Īfter an update, which didn’t solve the problem, I thought I would try a BIOS update, V1.17 to V1.42 - quite an upgrade. If this one is indeed dead, does anyone know what I could do with the screen? When it was given to me it was already a brick, they had taken in to a shop and been told first that the screen was dead, and then after buying a new screen (I have that too) they were told the motherboard was dead. So now I am going to try the same thing (different drivers) with the 5742Z. Seems I have a lot of updates to install.
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Then it rebooted and I was staring at the BIOS screen and moments later the bootloader. Then it came on and did the same thing again, USB flashing again. After about 10 seconds, it turned off and I said "fuck" and took a drink. The fan came on fully, and the light on my USB stick showed activity. Pressed power, still holding the keys down, then released them a few seconds after that. Held down Fn and Esc keys while I put the AC power cord back in.
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Stuck the USB in the right-hand port farthest from the screen.ĥ. Removed battery, all cables including power, and any disc from the DVD drive. Downloaded "Firmware_bios_Acer_Aspire_5010-5253G.rar", extracted just XEWxx214.FD from the DOS directory of the 5252 BIOS package.Ĥ.
#ACER ASPIRE BIOS UPDATE STUCK AT ACER SCREEM WINDOWS#
Got a USB stick (16GB Maxell), quick formatted to FAT32 in Windows 8.1.Ģ. Here is what I did, as detailed as possible though I don't know what matters and what doesn't:ġ. Clearing excess charge had no effect.ĥ minutes later and the 5252 is back and good as ever. It would remain in this state forever if you let it, sometimes the fan seemed to blow a bit but since nothing was doing anything I suppose there was little heat. The CD/DVD drive will seem to check for a disk but would not load anything, even bootable stuff. They both exhibit the same behaviour exactly, turning them on lights the blue power LED in the top left but the screen remains off. I had two Acer laptops, different models but very similar (52Z), that bricked. Used non-interactively.I made an account just to write this, since I found the thread helpful but lacking info on my exact model. y Assume an answer of `yes' to all questions allows e2fsck to be Running badblocks(8) will be added to the existing bad blocks k When combined with the -c option, any existing bad blocks in theīad blocks list are preserved, and any new bad blocks found by Scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. If this option is specified twice, then the bad block Inode to prevent them from being allocated to a file or direc‐ If any bad blocks are found, they are added to the bad block Read-only scan of the device in order to find any bad blocks. c This option causes e2fsck to use badblocks(8) program to do a f Force checking even if the file system seems clean. Without -k, you loose all of the prior bad block information. The -k is important, because it saves the previous bad block table, and adds any new bad blocks to that table. Sudo e2fsck -fccky /dev/sdXX # non-destructive read/write test (recommended)
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Sudo e2fsck -fcky /dev/sdXX # read-only test Sudo fdisk -l # identify all "Linux Filesystem" partitions Note: BEFORE updating the BIOS, backup all of your important files.įor 4G RAM, your current 2G swap is too small. Sudo -H gedit /etc/gdm3/nf # edit this file