Acer Travelmate P253 Freezes on BIOS

pisquared

Hello!

 

I was trying to create a dual boot of Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I successfully installed Ubuntu on the hard disk but it wasn't able to boot so I went through boot-repair which said that I should put a certain file as EFI. I did that, restarted and only Acer logo appeared with nothing else. F2 didn't work, I couldn't get to BIOS any other way.

 

What I have tried:

* Reseat the RAM

* Plug-in, plug-out hard drive

* Trying to plug only a bootable flash drive

* Trying to boot from CD

* Downloaded BIOS update from the website, but it only has a version from within Windows (which I can't access).

* Shorted JCMOS1 jumper for 20 seconds after which the ACER logo dissapeared and insted:

   * A black screen appears after I press the power key for about 5 seconds and then only a message "Press <F2> to enter Setup." appears

   * If I hold Fn+Esc and then power up, system info appears (Insyde H2O EFI 3.7, Copyright... System BIOS version: v2.13, Processor type etc) and the "Press <F2> to enter Setup." on the bottom

  * On pressing F2 the message "Press <F2> to enter Setup." dissapears but nothing happens

 

Any other ideas are very welcome!

 

Thanks!