Acer Aspire E1 572 black screen, needs bios flash

Hi Folks,

I have an Acer Aspire E1 572 which has the black screen of death. What I have gleaned from forums is that I need to flash the BIOS with a USB drive in order to get it up and working again.

The problem is that the Acer BIOS downloads for this laptop are .exe files and not DOS. Is there a way of converting the .exe.

I have seen that there are unlocked BIOS for this model here on this forum but the links to them are dead Any help is much appreciated. My Mrs is giving the the [censored] ache about it

Thanks in adavance