Bricking Acer Aspire 5652 bios mod - investigation

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  1. szape

    szape MDL Novice

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    #21 szape, Aug 18, 2009
    If I try to turn on the laptop, nothing happens (no BT in my machine, so no BT led). Your laptop was completely dead apart from the BT led, or fan kicked in when you pressed power button?
     
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    #22 amborem, Aug 18, 2009
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    Acer Aspire 5630 dead

    I tried all BIOS Recovery procedures, nothing ... the notebook is dead, pressing the power button does nothing, no fan, no any led, no keyboard, and no hd/floppy/dvd/usbpen working... I have reset the cmos ... nothing ...
     
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  5. szape

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    #25 szape, Aug 19, 2009
    Here's my BIOS chip:

    I need only a pre-flashed chip and I will make the soldering part. :D
     

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    #26 amborem, Aug 19, 2009
    Acer Aspire 5630 dead

    Are you sure that is the bios? Too easy one! Maybe this one is that!
     

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    #27 szape, Aug 19, 2009
    I'm sure, there was a sticker on it with "v1.5" on it... It's the bios' version number. :D
     
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  9. ZakMcRofl

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    #29 ZakMcRofl, Oct 13, 2009 (OP)
    Just out of curiosity, with which file did you brick it?
    If it was hosted here make sure to get it removed!
     
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    #30 urie, Oct 15, 2009
    Sometimes it is not down to the file but user error when trying to flash:(
     
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    #31 Suicide Solution, Oct 15, 2009
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    Would suggest to never flash within Windows and avoid floppy drives when flashing unless its a recovery.
    Copy all files to a bootable DOS ISO, burn a cd, and flash it from cd in DOS.

    If you have a sata drive, and cant use common boot cd's, find a boot image that will see connected USB drives,
    or make the USB itself bootable, and copy files there and run the flash. Sometimes you may have to
    go searching for a flash program with newer build numbers etc if you get any pre-flash errors. Try to
    see if the boards manufacture supplies a DOS flash app to use first.

    Flashed two Acer laptops without issues this way. Flashed a buddies retail board with DOS for Vista 2.0... no issues,
    requested a 2.1 bios mod for the same board and flashed within Windows and almost bricked the board. Connected a
    floppy and did a recovery with the same modded bios and it worked fine afterwards.
     
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    #32 ZakMcRofl, Jun 28, 2010 (OP)
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