Most manufacturer like Acer provide for the latest products two kind of bioses
1. BIOS
2. BIOS - UEFI for Windows 8 (Not for Upgrades)
The second enable the UEFI BOOT ENVIROMENT that have many benefits...
Laptops with Windows 7 preinstalled have a normal Bios, laptops with Windows 8 preinstalled have UEFI...
This guide is oriented to all laptops that have windows 7 and then legacy bios
if you flash new efi bios on older bios the flasher fails then open your xxxxx.exe file with whatever hex editor and find:
DisableSecureCapsuleFlash=1
change to
DisableSecureCapsuleFlash=0
now you're able to flash new UEFI Bios and install windows 8 on GPT partition
1. BIOS
2. BIOS - UEFI for Windows 8 (Not for Upgrades)
The second enable the UEFI BOOT ENVIROMENT that have many benefits...
Laptops with Windows 7 preinstalled have a normal Bios, laptops with Windows 8 preinstalled have UEFI...
This guide is oriented to all laptops that have windows 7 and then legacy bios
if you flash new efi bios on older bios the flasher fails then open your xxxxx.exe file with whatever hex editor and find:
DisableSecureCapsuleFlash=1
change to
DisableSecureCapsuleFlash=0
now you're able to flash new UEFI Bios and install windows 8 on GPT partition