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post #1 of 7
1/2/06 at 5:06pm
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Well.. it seems that I flashed a wrong bios version.. At POST i get 1long beep, 2 short beeps. Since it still make some noise, I hope that the boot-block is ok, so I want to try a bootable floppy disk, with a nice autoexec.bat that would reflash with the old version!

Does anyone know if the BIOS recovery (bootable disk, with all commands in autoexec.bat, DOS flasher and bios image .. and a blank screen) is possible with a USB floppy drive?

I know that with a normal floppy, it's OK (I did it before, but never on a notebook), but I won't spend money on a USB floppy just for the fun of it (because I'm not sure if the warranty will do it...)

Thanks!
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post #2 of 7
1/2/06 at 11:34pm
Why don't you try a bootable USB stick first. You can find a tutorial on how to make one in this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/...ket/index.html

The BIOS of my 8104 picks the USB stick up in the BIOS as a harddrive where you select the boot order.

HTH

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post #3 of 7
1/3/06 at 7:56am
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I tryed already! It was the first ideea. But my BIOS sees also the stick as a HDD drive. And it is impossible to change the boot order, since I don't get to the BIOS screen anymore. Just blank screen, and 3 beeps!

And in this case, I think (but I'm not that sure right now) that the bios will search just for a A: drive to boot from, so my "rescue boot" should be on that!

But thanks anyway!
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post #4 of 7
1/3/06 at 10:34am
If you can't boot from any other bootable medium (either USB stick or CD) I think the likelihood of you being able to boot from a USB floppy is very slim.

Sorry,

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post #5 of 7
1/3/06 at 10:58am
This is from the 8104 manual:


code beeps Post Routine Description
98h 1-2 Search for option Rom.
1 long 2 short beeps
on checksum failure.

Maybe someone can interpret this and further advised you.
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post #6 of 7
1/3/06 at 3:30pm
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1 long 2 short beeps.. indeed, checksum failure, but if the bootblock is alright (and it should be...since it's beeping at least)

I think I'll try with an USB floppy, and maybe just the I'll go for the warranty!
(Anyone knows if this kind of trouble is covered by the standard acer warranty?)

Thanks!
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post #7 of 7
1/3/06 at 8:25pm
Another idea: pull out HD then it should boot from USB drive (since USB flash is treated then as one and only HD).
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