Aspire 8950G BIOS Update fehlgeschlagen (Englisch)

[Kailia]

(entschuldigung: kein Deutsch....)

Hi everyone... help, bios updated failed ("write error") while updating from 1.05 to 1.06 in Windows, can't boot anymore, black screen, etc.

Been looking around all over the 'net for a "crisis"-kind of solution.

I think the machine uses "Insyde Flash" bios, so I guess I can't use the phoenix crisis disk, which requires a bios.wph.

I've found some info on this forum, but that points to using an ".fd" file.

On the Acer site, the "original" bios file for the machine includes two .BIN files: ZYF_102.BIN and ZYFec11.BIN. The first is about 4 MB, the second is about 512 KB, and it's in an "ec" folde (? ec ? error-correcting ??).

Please, can someone help me to recover my machine ?

None of the instructions I can find seem to apply to this machine... or I'm missing something.

 

[Kailia]

AW: Help! Acer 8950G bios update failure

OK, I found it.
Reading about lots of other machines with similar BIOSes, I found that they use an ".FD" file for the "crisis" bios recovery, but the problem is finding the right name for the file.
Then I found I could "unpack" the Windows bios program (not the Dos one, he he he) using WinRAR, and in there I saw the correct filename is ZYF.fd for my machine.
I put that file (straight from the unpacked windows bios) to a fat-formatted USB stick, unplugged the power from the broken machine, removed the battery, inserted the stick, pressed FN + ESC from then on all the time; then inserted the AC power, pressed power on, and after about 30 seconds or a minute, I noticed it started actually reading the stick (as opposed to the stick's light being just on or off all the time, which happened as long as I was using an incorrect filename).
After another minute or so, the machine started beeping about once per second, which went on for a few minutes, then it restarted.... FIXED !!!!!
Now I'm off to find how to flash a more recent BIOS on my machine from Dos... this is the second time this happens to me !! It happened last year on my Acer 8940 as well ! Goddamn Acer, get Windows flashing to work properly, OR just create a user-friendly "make a bootable dos usb stick" program for us that immediatly creates a complete bootable usb stick...