Acer Aspire E1-572P black screen after restart. Flashing blue HDD LED - DOS BIOS required!

Hello everyone,

I shut my laptop down last night and in the morning I am getting a black screen and the and the hard drive light is flashing once a second. I have removed and reseated the ram and also removed the battery. Still no luck.

I removed the hard drive and tried to restart. Same issue with same flashing LED.

From what I have read it could be a corrupt BIOS. I have tried to find the DOS version of the BIOS but on the Acer site only the windows version of the BIOS is available. I want to try the FN+ESC+Power sequence to try and reflash my laptop.

Can someone point me to a DOS bios that will work to get this recovered? From what I can tell the same BIOS is used for all E1-572 models.

Thanks you

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JackE

Don't try flashing the BIOS until you've at least tried to HDMI out to a TV to see if it might be the video cable or the screen itself. Jack E/NJ

mamejay

Thanks for that. It was the BIOS and a flash using the FN+ESC key did the trick. Bit annoying that the firmware is not available VIA the Acer website and had to be procured from a 3rd party website. My notebook is back in action