Black screen of death, not booting. No logo, cant access BIOS. Help!

Hi,
I have an Aspire R5-571TG, its currently not booting up, no Acer logo, the backlit keyboard and the power indicator light up, and after a few seconds the fan comes on.

I have already tried re-seating the ram, tried booting it without the SSD, disconnected all batteries and let them sit. I have tried all the keyboard combinations on startup I could find. I have connected it to a monitor, nothing.

My search has led me to believe I need to flash the BIOS from a USB drive by turning on the computer while holding Fn + Esc. Im not having any luck thus far. The issue I think I'm still having is that I do not know what to rename the .bin file so that the computer flashes from it.

I am attempting to flash 1.10 from here https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/6761?b=1&pn=NX.GP7AA.001

Can anyone help me out, I'm not normally this into troubleshooting but I NEED my laptop running again.

Please explain like you're an air traffic controller explaining to a 5-year-old how to land a plane because everyone else onboard has been poisoned. Thank you.

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Commodore_1995#

If the problem arises without you performing a bios update, it is not a bios problem. Stop trying to recover the bios. Check first by testing with another ram and another hard drive.

Steve118

egydiocoelho said:

If the problem arises without you performing a bios update, it is not a bios problem. Stop trying to recover the bios. Check first by testing with another ram and another hard drive.

I don't have spare RAM and SSD's anywhere. But If it were one of those wouldn't I at least get an ACER logo on bootup?

If you could help me with the file name needed to change the .bin file to, id appreciate it.

Thanks.

Commodore_1995#

Try resetting the battery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfhgnxUJoZo&list=FLVBqwtBw09_Z9tXo1Injakw&index=7&t=0s

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Steve118

egydiocoelho said:

Try resetting the battery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfhgnxUJoZo&list=FLVBqwtBw09_Z9tXo1Injakw&index=7&t=0s

I did that already. I was able ty find the correct file name to the BIOS file MGTRKBL.fd but still does not seem to be working with the Fn + Esc bootup procedure.

Dont know what else to try.