Aspire TC-120 BIOS (EFI) Recovery

Hello

We have a TC-120 that had a message pop up saying that it needed a BIOS update. Now the system isn't posting (nothing at all on HDMI or VGA). The system does beep on startup. I get 2 Beeps, followed by some HDD activity, followed by 9 beeps then 7 beeps. I think the BIOS was corrupted some how.

Been reading around trying to find out how to perform a BIOS recovery. 2 Beeps from what I can tell is "Recovery Started." I think the BIOS is looking for a recovery image to flash the bios with off of the HDD. Any idea what I need to rename my P11-A4.CAP to?

What I've done:

Cleared CMOS using jumper and removing battery
Used a different HDD formated in FAT16 and tried copying following names in the root of the drive: BIOS.cap, BIOS.fd, P11-A4.cap
Tried copying the CAP file to the ROM subdirectory since that was how it was in the update zip.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!

Accepted answers

IronFly

rename the .CAP inside the ROM folder file to RCVBOOT.CAP and copy the file alone to the root of the USB flash drive (i don't know if FAT32 or FAT16)

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Microbolt

I notice a few other people having the same or similar issues. Is this forum not monitored by Acer at all? Any help would be appreciated. I deal with alot of customers being a computer repair shop and this makes me want to tell people to stay away from Acer!

https://community.acer.com/t5/Aspire-Desktops/Aspire-TC-120-BIOS-Information/td-p/500316

https://community.acer.com/t5/Aspire-Desktops/Bios-problem-on-Aspire-TC-120-Desktop/td-p/401071

IronFly

rename the .CAP inside the ROM folder file to RCVBOOT.CAP and copy the file alone to the root of the USB flash drive (i don't know if FAT32 or FAT16)

Microbolt

Awesome, that worked perfect. I created a 500mb FAT16 partition on an extra drive I had laying around and put the P11-A4.CAP file renamed to RCVBOOT.CAP. When I powered up I got the two long beeps, then it sat for about 10 seconds and the got two quick beeps. And low and behold system is now working again.

Thanks a million!

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