Request to unlock advance features in Acer Aspire 5740 Bios Phoenix 1.28

[codingfox]

Hey so i am flashing this and it's been flashing for an hour and 20 minutes now... is that normal?
USB indicator lights are occassionally blinking as well as the storage indicator LED.
Charger is in.
Screen is black.
So far no beep.
Fans are at full speed right now.

Uhm i just tried doing it on a travelmate 5730 since its basically the same except that my BIOS is on 1.18, but idk.
Uh yeah-

CPU is an i3-320M i think yeah.

Edit: It never started flashing to begin with, rebooted it and it didnt do anything

[napsteronly]

Hello everyone!

Thank you Slm6397 for your work in the BIOS and everyone on this thread that tries to help.

It seems that I have the same problem as cyboroz and I want to go with Frok1966's suggestion on, flashing again the original 1.28 version BIOS on my Aspire 5740g to see if it will work. Problem is Acer decided to remove all the drivers and BIOS'es for devices that are older than 5 years as per this reddit post and I cannot find anything for the laptop. The BIOS I see on that "msifo32" reports is "Phoenix Technologies LTD V1.28 8/12/2010"
If someone has any drivers or BIOS'es, could they please send them to me somehow?

Later I will try to flash the modified bios but I think it will not work for my CPU (i5 430M).

Thanks in advance!