Hello,
I've been searching for more than two days around the internet for a solution to get my laptop working again. I'm hoping this web-site will finally provide an alternative to the expensive ACER option (they take ~100USD for this service)
Short summary:
Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G
BIOS Vendor: InsydeH20 Bios
Version: 2.28
Issue:
I bought this laptop (second hand, previous owner in another country <- out of reach) 2 weeks ago, everything was working fine but I had no access to the BIOS as he locked it with a password. I've tried all the known tricks out there in order to unlock but nothing worked, from the generic password generator (this laptop does not provide any checksum/hash after keying 3 wrong passwords), to completely dismantling the laptop in order to isolate CMOS Battery and make sure no electricity is in it's area, nothing worked. So I did something stupid, I flashed the BIOS from the Windows that was installed in it and things went terrible from that point. The BIOS patch I downloaded from the acer support website (updated from version 1.14 to 2.28) and now I'm stuck in the UEFI/Secure boot prison (at least I think so) <- the Laptop does not see any HDDs / bootable flash drives except for ubuntu 14.04 live-usb, and I believe this problem might be easily solved if I gained access inside the BIOS. Do you think anything can be done to fix this?
I have read somewhere that downgrading to the BIOS version I had before might solve the problem so I can get inside Windows / or any installed OS on any HDD again, but not sure how. Read here in the forum that someone can perform an emergency bios-flash but I'm not sure how that works with this kind of laptops and these kind of (BIOS-Flash) Patch. Check the links below in order to get more info about the flasher provided from ACER for this laptop.
Summary:
Emergency flashing BIOS from 2.28 to 1.14 (downgrading) && removing BIOS password via emergency flash, since no HDD / usb-images (including ms-dos, free-dos) is able to boot or to be seen by laptop.
Links:
Desired BIOS Version (from ACER Website)
Best regards,
H. Bar
I've been searching for more than two days around the internet for a solution to get my laptop working again. I'm hoping this web-site will finally provide an alternative to the expensive ACER option (they take ~100USD for this service)
Short summary:
Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G
BIOS Vendor: InsydeH20 Bios
Version: 2.28
Issue:
I bought this laptop (second hand, previous owner in another country <- out of reach) 2 weeks ago, everything was working fine but I had no access to the BIOS as he locked it with a password. I've tried all the known tricks out there in order to unlock but nothing worked, from the generic password generator (this laptop does not provide any checksum/hash after keying 3 wrong passwords), to completely dismantling the laptop in order to isolate CMOS Battery and make sure no electricity is in it's area, nothing worked. So I did something stupid, I flashed the BIOS from the Windows that was installed in it and things went terrible from that point. The BIOS patch I downloaded from the acer support website (updated from version 1.14 to 2.28) and now I'm stuck in the UEFI/Secure boot prison (at least I think so) <- the Laptop does not see any HDDs / bootable flash drives except for ubuntu 14.04 live-usb, and I believe this problem might be easily solved if I gained access inside the BIOS. Do you think anything can be done to fix this?
I have read somewhere that downgrading to the BIOS version I had before might solve the problem so I can get inside Windows / or any installed OS on any HDD again, but not sure how. Read here in the forum that someone can perform an emergency bios-flash but I'm not sure how that works with this kind of laptops and these kind of (BIOS-Flash) Patch. Check the links below in order to get more info about the flasher provided from ACER for this laptop.
Summary:
Emergency flashing BIOS from 2.28 to 1.14 (downgrading) && removing BIOS password via emergency flash, since no HDD / usb-images (including ms-dos, free-dos) is able to boot or to be seen by laptop.
Links:
Desired BIOS Version (from ACER Website)
Best regards,
H. Bar