My Aspire v5-571p needs a new BIOS. I have 5 Win 8 recovery disks just purchased by mail from Acer for my SNID. 24307909820. (1-system, 3-recovery and 1 language) The original bios is v2.17. I have downloaded it from Acer. It is a .exe file. Running it opens a command window which disappears so fast you cannot read it. A quick screen capture revealed a statement of incompatibility. I have the "aspire_v5571p.pdf" service manual which asks for a "Crisis Package Source". I cannot find that anywhere on the net. I contacted and paid for service at the Acer recommended "Answers By". After 4 hours they eventually directed me to boot from a flash drive and write all zeroes to the hard drive. This was successful with NO errors. The Acer System disk will boot in legacy boot mode but not in UEFI. It will ask for a reboot continuously alternating between the two boot modes. They gave up. I have since created a Win8 boot flash drive and loaded a very basic Win 8 on my system. I tried running the BIOS .exe file from windows run, system prompt (admin), safe mode and dos boot modes. All fail.
How do I reload the original BIOS or even the updated v2.18? Too many hours!!!! Hope you have an answer.
