I tried to mod with HP slic, but PBE went mad on me and now I blinked my Acer (sigh). I know is possible to recovery Asus and Gigabyte motherboards (I did once with Asus years ago), so I guess Acer did the same with Aspire 5672. Does anyone know any recovery procedure for 5672 please ? Btw, it uses a SST39VF080 70-4C-EIE flash EEprom. Gradius
Looking here: ; Date : 4/12/'06 ; ZB1 BIOS Ver. : v1.3223 (3B23) ; INTEL VGA BIOS : cal_1256.dat ; ATi M52 : br18861.bin ; ATi M54 : br18860.bin ; ATi M56 : br19107.bin ; 1. Fix the CRISIS function can't work by Hotkey "Fn+ESC". base\bootblok\crisishk.asm So the Acer call that as "CRISIS function". I have made a pendrive with boot and flash 3224, but so far no luck (no activity). It seems it needs CD/DVD or USB Floppy drive. If someone else already did Crisis recovery, can you tell me what media (pendrive? cd? dvd? floppy?) did you used? Besides can you tell me what happens while pressing Fn+ESC (and hold) then press Power ON? All I see here is lighting up the Bluetooth led (blue led). Gradius
Hi, Thanks for the files, but I already have all that. I fully opened my notebook and I don't remember to see any switch behind the keyboard, in fact I didn't see any switch around, on any place inside, except the expected ones, like power on, bluetooth & wifi, etc. The problem with lightning bluetooth is it never goes down/off when I press Fn+Esc, so I don't know if that is normal or not. It goes on almost the same time I power on with Fn+Esc. I was excepting to work with pendrive (I did mine bootable with minidos), but I get no activity at all (this part makes me worried too). I'm afraid to buy a USB floppy drive and get the same problem, but it seems the only alternative left. I even made a bootable (FAT16) with the original HDD, with the files, but that also didn't works. Gradius
I can't also remember if there are any dip switches, it's also not listed in the service guide, so I don't think there are. But maybe check it to be sure... It's normal that the bluetooth light stays on, it's by default on in the bluetooth module chipset and it won't go out until Windows is booted. You have to press and hold "Fn" and "Esc" before powering on. Pressing "Fn" and "Esc" when already powered on will just do nothing. Booting from the HDD will also not work (bios needs to initialize sata, so without bios, you have no working sata). I think a USB floppy drive will be the thing with most chance to success. It's normal that you see no activity on the computer.
I got the USB Floppy drive. It access the unit, and read it for around 40~50sec, then it stop. I wait for over 5min and nothing happens, no beeps, nothing. Tried all the BIOS, same symphtom. Any tip? Gradius
Yeah, me too, I really hope he gets it working again. I also have a 5672, so it's interesting for me if he gets his laptop back alive.
@wimme, yep, I tried all that, I'll try to check other things now. After ~50sec the floppy stop reading and do nothing, I let it over 1h and is still dead (no access at all). Too bad I don't have an EEprom programmer, otherwise I wouldn't have problem to take out the IC, hard-program it, and re-soldering again. Manufactures should always includes an 2nd Flash inside there too, when something like this happens. It would costs around $3 or less in quantity to do so. AFAIK Gigabyte does that, they include even 3 or 4 ICs flash EEProms on some mobos! Thanks guys!
Looking @ PHLASH16.EXE, they are all the same on 3219, 3224 and 3234. There is no phlash16 on 3239. Using them, the floppy stop reading after 5sec (five sec). Gradius
Recovered! Finally! I'll be back as soon I fix the touchpad, it seems some cable inside went bad connected or something, but my system is back to life !! Gradius
Wow great news! I'm also wondering how you did it. Do you mind to post a detailed step by step? So if it ever goes wrong on my laptop I could do the same...
GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL This is the most exciting post I read today !!!! I have an aspire 5670 and a dell lappy, the dell is easily done (based on tutorials of this site) and activated, but acer is tricky, still waiting.
I'll post all the details, but first I need to sort out this little problem, whenever I put the battery, the keyboard and touchpad stop working. The keyboard works fine under DOS (battery inside), but not under Win7. I know my battery is 90% weared (Win7 info), but it shouldn't do that, because it was working fine (battery + AC power under Win7) before, did that happen to anyone here? Gradius