Acer Aspire Bios Download The Latest

As much as I hate doing BIOS updates, due to the possibility of catastrophic problems, I decided to give it a go.

In the end I found a combination of advice was the best solution.

No idea why as the files took up 3.2MB in total.

Now, and this is where I went wrong initially, the USB memory has to be formatted as FAT32 and not NTFS.

Acer Aspire Bios Download The Latest

Simply click on the option to download the latest Windows version.

At the bottom of the window ensure the Type is USB Drive and the Drive is the drive letter of your USB memory stick.

Click on OK and FreeDOS will be installed onto the USB drive.

Reboot the Acer and press F2 at the splash screen to go into the BIOS settings.

Once in the BIOS select the Boot Menu and move the USB HDD to the top of the list (using F5 and F6 to move them up and down).

The FreeDOS screen will appear with an option to select a default option.

Do this. You will now be presented with a list of boot options select option 5 (FreeDOS Live CD).

I should have maybe said earlier that if youre not literate with DOS, then you may struggle at this point FreeDOS will now have started and youll have a standard DOS screen.

Go into C: (which is actually your USB memory stick) and find the BIOS files you saved earlier.

Make sure to change the BIOS back to boot from your hard drive in future (and, whilst youre there, check the BIOS front screen to ensure the BIOS version number is correct).