Can anyone help. I have managed to brick my laptop. Blank screen on power up, power light stays on for 10secs then dies.
I tried to do the 'battery out, fn+esc, power button, power light flash and kept keys held down' routine, using v1.23 PEW71X64.fd on a quick formatted USB stick (renamed from 71124.fd) from the Acer site.
Unfortunately my laptop was originally running the 1.22 version, which is not on the Acer site (the earliest version available is v1.23).
The power lights on the bottom of the laptop do flash but the laptop dies after 10 seconds with fn+esc still being pressed down.
I have another Acer laptop (working) which is identical to the bricked one. I was wondering if there was a way to extract the .fd file from the BIOS on that one to use on the broken one. Failing that, has anyone got the original v1.22 file so I can salvage it.
Cheers!
I tried to do the 'battery out, fn+esc, power button, power light flash and kept keys held down' routine, using v1.23 PEW71X64.fd on a quick formatted USB stick (renamed from 71124.fd) from the Acer site.
Unfortunately my laptop was originally running the 1.22 version, which is not on the Acer site (the earliest version available is v1.23).
The power lights on the bottom of the laptop do flash but the laptop dies after 10 seconds with fn+esc still being pressed down.
I have another Acer laptop (working) which is identical to the bricked one. I was wondering if there was a way to extract the .fd file from the BIOS on that one to use on the broken one. Failing that, has anyone got the original v1.22 file so I can salvage it.
Cheers!