Why can't I flash my bios for my Aspire M3450? Instructions in Readme followed.

I recently bought my acer aspire m3450 desktop from a local retailer to play a few games. One game in particular, borderlands 2, was purchased via the popular third party digital download cloud Steam Client. Upon launching this game and a few others through the steam client, my computer would crash. There would sometimes give me a blue screen and an error message, other times, there would be no blue screen and the computer would immediately restart.

I tried the following:

Resetting the Computer

Updating my drivers

Redownloading and Installing the game

I then searched internet forums and game support to find this:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/STEAMGamesonAMDFXplatforms.aspx

This shows there is an inherit problem with AMD FX processors. I would like to perform an update to my bios. So I downloaded the file AMI P01-A3, Date: 01/02/2012.

Upon downloading and unpacking the zip folder i read the instructions and open command prompt as ADMIN. Follow the instructions for a windows 64 bit system. Command prompt told me i did not enter an appropriate .bat file.

Is there a proper fix for this problem?

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freeza

Good day

Download and update the bios to the latest bios P01.A4. You will need to update the bios starting with P01.A2, P01.A3, and then P01.A4. I have tested all the bios and they work.

I downloaded the bios from: http://www.acer.co.za/ac/en/ZA/content/drivers

Regards,

Freeza

jdorny

I have the same problem with STEAM games and discovered the need to update the BIOS after trying all else.

I am new to re-flashing a BIOS and know that it can be damaging if done wrong. I currently have P01-A1. Am I to understand from your post that to do this right I need to do three re-flashes in succession to upgrade to P01-A2, P01-A3, and then P01-A4? Doesn't the P01-A4 contain all of the other upgrades?

Additionally, the Readme instructions identify the commands. Is there a particular directory where the download needs to be placed so that the WFlash2M.bat knows where to find the new BIOS image?