My Acer Travelmate no longer works. When I power up the laptop I just get a black screen - nothing else. After a minute or so the power light goes off.
The laptop was pre-installed with Windows 8 and I wanted to downgrade it to Windows 7. I ended up flashing the bios using the method described in another thread on this site thread titled "[HELP] Acer Travelmate P253-E bios downgrade" and since then the laptop has not worked.
I have tried to create a *.fd file myself following the instructions BDMaster gives in the "Dirty guide to decapsulate BIOS", but the file I create does not fix the laptop. The process works exactly as described (Battery out - insert USB - press Fn & Esc - Power on - fan speeds up - release Fn & Esc - switch off when fan slows down etc etc.) but I guess the file I have created and renamed as instructed by PhoenixTool is incorrect.
Would it be possible for someone to please create a BIOS file for me from the Acer exe file for the latest BIOS version?
http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers
Search for SNID 42215995534
I would be very happy if I could install the latest driver 2.21 and get the machine to boot!
Many thanks.
The laptop was pre-installed with Windows 8 and I wanted to downgrade it to Windows 7. I ended up flashing the bios using the method described in another thread on this site thread titled "[HELP] Acer Travelmate P253-E bios downgrade" and since then the laptop has not worked.
I have tried to create a *.fd file myself following the instructions BDMaster gives in the "Dirty guide to decapsulate BIOS", but the file I create does not fix the laptop. The process works exactly as described (Battery out - insert USB - press Fn & Esc - Power on - fan speeds up - release Fn & Esc - switch off when fan slows down etc etc.) but I guess the file I have created and renamed as instructed by PhoenixTool is incorrect.
Would it be possible for someone to please create a BIOS file for me from the Acer exe file for the latest BIOS version?
http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers
Search for SNID 42215995534
I would be very happy if I could install the latest driver 2.21 and get the machine to boot!
Many thanks.