Hi! New user to the Acer community.
I just got an old Acer Aspire E5-573G from a bargain bin. Currently it has Windows 11 in it & i wanna install Ubuntu on it like a dual boot.
I tried, but it doesn't work. I read somewhere online that the issue lies with the BIOS version. Like, any BIOS version past v1.15 (my unit has BIOS v1.37) will break any Linux install & it's trapped with Windows forever.
I've seen posts like this already, with the solution being that I downgrade my firmware version down to 1.15 or lower with a ZRT_115.exe file
https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/386009/acer-aspire-e5-573g-you-can-not-install-any-one-linux-distribution-the-problem-bios-1-25/p1
My only problem is that drivers & bios downloads on this laptop are not available on the official Support page from Acer (it's old, I guess). Which makes my situation bad.
Though a small I have is downgrading my BIOS version from 1.37 to 1.25 using this official link from After (after lots of Googe searching & searching forum posts here on how to do it)
http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/BIOS/BIOS/BIOS_Acer_1.25_A_A.zip?acerid=635766982144057569&Step1=NOTEBOOK&Step2=ASPIRE&Step3=ASPIRE%20E5-573G&OS=ALL&LC=en&BC=ACER&SC=AAP_2
After that, my laptop is now BIOS 1.25 without bricking! But nowhere near to the 1.15 version I'm looking for to install Linux on this old laptop.
I want to know if there's still older BIOS version updates available online for my laptop that I can downgrade to & get Ubuntu working. As the official Support page is dry empty of this laptop's drivers (though it seems its files are still available in the official global download acer website, I just don't know the right code that gets me to the correct file).
