Acer Aspire E5-471 BIOS v 1.25 changelog?

My sister had a Acer Aspire E5-471 but it was very slow (she wont let me touch it to maintenance) and his screen broke. I managed to acces the bios and reinstall windows but it was a pain due to the laptop not showing anything on a external monitor before the windows startup. After I managed to acces the BIOS properly I couldn't find an option to make the external monitor the primary display, as others laptop have. I was wondering if the BIOS v 1.25 had this option and if it was worthed to update. On the suport page only says BIOS and not a single detail on what has changed.

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philetus

When you right click on the desktop, you don't get a menu that has Screen Resolution at the bottom or when you click Screen Resolution, you're not getting the screen with Multiple Displays?

Lawl92

philetus said:

When you right click on the desktop, you don't get a menu that has Screen Resolution at the bottom or when you click Screen Resolution, you're not getting the screen with Multiple Displays?

The problem is not the OS windows10, the problem is before windows load, it won't show the acer logo nor the BIOS. I could get it to show them on the external display but I need to close the lid (previusly configured to do nothing), conect a external mouse and keyboard then reboot with the advanced start option on windows 10. When I disconect the HDD and try to boot directly from USB, it wouldn't show anything on the external monitor, even when the broken laptop screen is unpluged.

philetus

I'm pretty sure the only place you can make an external monitor the primary is from within Windows and it's not going to work for Bios.

Lawl92

philetus said:

I'm pretty sure the only place you can make an external monitor the primary is from within Windows and it's not going to work for Bios.

I have seen others laptops that can make the external screen the primary display on the BIOS level. I want that because I want to install a Linux OS and if I try to do so I may brick the board forever as it wouldn't output any signal. Windows is automatic and it recognize the external display as the only display but this does not happen on a BIOS level.

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