After booting from USB devices (like after installation from LIVE-CD from USB-Stick), Acer Aspire One A110 and A150 often hangs and needs a bios update, to remove black screen of death.
Download actual bios from Acer website. Unzip it, copy the content of the dos-folder to the root of a FAT16 or FAT32 formatted usb-stick. Now you have a flashit.exe and a ****.fd. It's good to use a usb-stick with activity-le, to see, if somethings happens.
Make a copy of flashit.exe and name it flash.exe - one of them is called by the pre-bios-flasher later. Then you have to rename ****.fd to ZG5IA32.fd.
Power of the netbook, make shure you inserted battery pack and ac-plug - both is needed. Insert usb-stick in netbook.
Then hold FN and ESC-key simultaniously and power on - the power-button will now blink to show you, that the pre-bios-flasher is active. Release FN-ESC and press the power button again - now it will check your usb-stick and start updating the netbook. If that happens, the usb-stick will blink for some time. Don't do anything with your netbook at this time - wait for reboot, now bios should boot regulary.
If your netbook does not reboot after, let's say 5 minutes and usb-stick is not blinking any more, something went wrong with the bios update.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Huawei E220 64 bit Update does not work under Windows 7
Last days i tried to update the firmware of my E220 from Huawei to be 64bit compatible.
So i downloaded the latest firmware update of the Huawei Website - but my plugged in E220 was not found by the flash routine. After some try-and-error i found out, that the update does not seem to work under Windows 7 32bit, althought the device was installed successfully before.
So i tried it under XP 32bit and it worked perfectly.
So i downloaded the latest firmware update of the Huawei Website - but my plugged in E220 was not found by the flash routine. After some try-and-error i found out, that the update does not seem to work under Windows 7 32bit, althought the device was installed successfully before.
So i tried it under XP 32bit and it worked perfectly.
Backup preinstalled PowerDVD 8.1 from Acer Aspire 1810TZ
I wanted to remove my preinstalled Windows 7 64bit installtion because of 64bit driver issues. But i didn't want to loose my preinstalled PowerDVD 8.1.
I found out that the installation files are deposited under a hidden folder at C:\OEM. To make the folder visible go to the control panel / folder options and activate "Show hidden files, folders, and drives". Restart Windows Explorer and search for a directory called PowerDVD in the OEM-folder.
You backup this folder to a usb-stick.
After Windows 7 32bit installation i run the installation from usb and it worked!
I found out that the installation files are deposited under a hidden folder at C:\OEM. To make the folder visible go to the control panel / folder options and activate "Show hidden files, folders, and drives". Restart Windows Explorer and search for a directory called PowerDVD in the OEM-folder.
You backup this folder to a usb-stick.
After Windows 7 32bit installation i run the installation from usb and it worked!