Acer Aspire 5741G Bios Recovery

Thank you you are a live saver

 

Thank you Suramix, god bless you....just want to add that this results when burning it to a cd....

Once again..... thank you

 

Thanks to Surimax and step by step instructions

Thanks Surimax. With your help and calming influence I have got my laptop working again. However based on my observations and googling around when I couldn't work out why your steps didn't seem to work for me I have updated your instructions to help others like me. Please add to this list or amend it if I have made any mistakes or more clarification is required.

1. On your bricked laptop (failed BIOS update) remove all cables including power cable and also the battery. DON'T reconnect the power yet.

2. Format a USB Stick using EASEUS excellent and free Partition Manager (or another partition manger of your choosing) so that you have one 512MB FAT32 partition and nothing else on the stick. It does not matter what size the stick is (mine was 4GB), but it seems that the total size of the first partition must be less than 2GB.

3. Download the latest version of your BIOS (or the old one if you wish) from Acer's website. The files are Zipped. Go down into the DOS folder and extract the .FD file (mine was NEW70123.fd) onto the USB stick. This is the only file you need. You don't need FLAs**t.

4. Rename the file NEW70x64.fd. (Googling around it is not clear whether this step is necessary, but having done it and got my laptop back I am not going to brick the thing again just to test the recovery process with the original file name! ). However there seems some uncertainty if the x64 refers to x64 chipsets.

5. Plug the USB stick into your bricked laptop.

6. Press the FN and ESC keys together and keep on pressing during the next two steps.

7. Reinsert the power cable and then press the power button.

8. When the fan starts up the USB stick will flash for a second or so showing it is being read. However nothing will appear on the screen, and my stick didn't do anything else, so I began to think nothing was happening.

9. After a few minutes (mine must have been less than 15, I had gone away to find out other solutions because I thought it had failed), it will reboot as normal.

Hope this helps and thanks to everyone who posted here and elsewhere. Without your advice I would have a very expensive doorstop.

Mark

 

excuse me but how do i find .fd files into dos? i really don't know what to do! please help me!

 

I had the same problem

i did the same as said here but mines is taking to much time i think its already an hour . what shall i do ? should i try it again .

 

it worked , thank you again again .

 

acer5741 bios update

what did you do differently for it to work? did you simply wait longer or tried again

 

thank you very much you helped me alot

thank you you r great

 

hey guys, mine is taking more than an hour. What do you suggest? To wait until it finish?

 

How much time it took you in order to finish?

 

clean your ram golden contacts with a pencil eraser and try again.

 

i have also an aspire 5741G i3 4GB RAM 64bit os win7 and gpu ati radeon mobile hd 5740 512MB
i've made the update and everything looks grate. But some hours later the same problem rise up. booting , windows logo , login.... stuck
Same problem on my second os, ubuntu.

If i go to safe mode my laptop still working but i can see red lines on my screen... like a raster.

any idea?

 

Ram issue or video chip need resolder (reflow on YouTube)

 

If you have the right RAM and carried out your memtest without finding any error and there is no report of problem with your hard disk, I would advice you re-seat your microprocessor properly and apply thermal paste.