Bad bios flash resulted in bricked PC

Update:

Fan is revving, AC power LED is still turning on and off regularly but screen still shows no life

Have a read at https://www.technibble.com/how-to-recover-from-a-bad-bios-update/

This MAY give ideas of what to do .

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DaveA said:

Have a read at https://www.technibble.com/how-to-recover-from-a-bad-bios-update/

This MAY give ideas of what to do .

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Believe-it-or-not I've come across that article (plus countless others like it) but the method was unsuccessful

Then as you said you may now have a "Brick" and need to check with a hardware guy to get it fixed.

flavallee said:

You appear to have an Acer TravelMate P453-M laptop which came with Windows 8 64-bit.

What's the exact serial number and SNID number on yours?

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These are the BIOS updates that are listed for that laptop model.

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If you obtained that BIOS update from some other site instead of from that laptop's support site, there's a good chance that it now has become a heavy doorstop.

Hopefully, David's link will help you.

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No. Mine came with Win7 Pro x64. I purchased it under the title "refurbished" so i know it wasn't new for sure (But was a great deal for $160).

The SNID is: 23303493272

I did get the BIOS from a third-party site because when I searched the Acer Support site, nothing came up :/

DaveA said:

Then as you said you may now have a "Brick" and need to check with a hardware guy to get it fixed.

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Looks like it and I'm sure it's gonna cost plenty

But I'm not gonna despair yet. I found the model's service manual online and it offered some detailed instruction about a feature called "Block Bios" and I'm planning on trying it out tonight (once my friend comes over with his PC so I can burn an official BIOS I got from driverscollection.com to my USB). {Fingers crossed}

But I'm not gonna despair yet. I found the model's service manual online and it offered some detailed instruction about a feature called "Block Bios" and I'm planning on trying it out tonight (once my friend comes over with his PC so I can burn an official BIOS I got from driverscollection.com to my USB). {Fingers crossed}

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Keep us posted on the outcome.

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flavallee said:

Why were you trying to update the BIOS anyway?
It's generally recommended not to update a BIOS, unless it addresses and fixes a specific issue you're having with the computer.

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According to that SNID number, you have this laptop which originally came with Windows 8.1 64-bit.
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Since yours was bought refurbished with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, the Acer support site won't show that.
The support site lists the same 2 BIOS updates for both operating systems.

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The VRAM option on my bios couldn't be changed (they were greyed-out), so the machine only displayed 64MB of VRAM (But surprisingly-enough I had 2GB of "shared" memory) and that stopped many of my games from launching (unless if i could find walkarounds and tweaks to individual games), and that was a real buzz-kill. A few weeks ago I finally got a copy of Doom 4 aaand... it just wouldn't start because "64MB of Video Memory is insufficient". I ran to Yahoo Answers to query my plight and there was a general consensus that I should head over to bios-mods.com to get a BIOS that would give me some decent options and liberty. I thought it would be an easy task like flashing roms on an Android... but oh boy was i wrong.

I couldn't have known it was supposed to come with Win8.1
Bear with me..

Here's the link to the service manual if someone may ever need it in the future

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/488748/Acer-Travelmate-P453-M.html?page=214

Seems like the tool Fla****.exe can't run on a x64 PC and Wincrisis is also greyed on the "browse" option. So can you guys please suggest alternative software to burn a .FD bios into a USB or CD? I tried UsbImage V1.12 (the one I used to get me into all this mess) but it's not completing the job on Win10 (It worked like a charm on my win7 however).