[SOLVED] Help - Dead Acer Aspire One :(

Hi
I've just completed installing XP on to my Acer One and managed to get grub reinstalled so I can triple boot Linpus, XP & Ubuntu 8.10.

Everything was working well for about 10 minutes.
I decided to reboot to make a back of the netbook.

I rebooted, the screen went black and that's it.
Holding down the power button shuts the machine down, but when I trued it on again I get no splash screen and no F12 boot option.
The screen just stays black. I can hear the disk but nothing else happens. The only way to shut down from this is to remove the battery.

Once I've reinstall the battery, I boot up and get nothing just the black screen. This time the power button works but on reboot I have to remove the battery to poweroff.

It's hard to tell if it's the screen that gone or not as all I get is BLACK !!

Any ideas ?? Thanks

 

Re: Help - Dead Acer Aspire One

Here's the solution: http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer ... overy.html
You probably had BIOS v3114 or older, that's why it failed so easily.
Btw, this has been answered already a couple of times.

 

Re: Help - Dead Acer Aspire One

Thanks I'll try this.
My current bios is 3301.

I presume it doesn't matter that I can't see or access anything to do this. ??

 

Re: Help - Dead Acer Aspire One

Result

The BIOS is still showing as 3301.. but I did download 3309 ??
Anyway to confirm the exact version ?

 

Re: Help - Dead Acer Aspire One

Flashed it again and now it's 3309.
Thanks

 

Thank you so much for the information !!! I was in the same situation and this really really safe my day.

 

Mine has died for the 3rd time, now I can't get it to reflash, it has 3309 on it.

Can you boot yours up using the fnc+esc method and report what it says on the screen.

I think that the 3309 bios is for some reason not allowing the reflash like the other versions.