Acer Aspire V5-171 Bios Update: How to go from 1.09 up?

ForestSkillLtd
ForestSkillLtd Member Posts: 3 New User

Well my lovely old V5-171 started playing up the other month. Long story short; I'm now looking at updating the bios. It was as per original (v1.02) which I updated to v1.09, but the updater won't install anything starting in 2.x; it just gives an error message stating install a bios starting in 1.x.

 

Anyone got any ideas on how I update the bios to anything above v1.09?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Chris

Best Answer

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓

    Nope, you can't if your V5 had windows 7 from factory, even if you updated to windows 8.x

     

    the 2.xx version works only on V5 with windows 8.x from factory.

    I'm not an Acer employee.

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    if your V5 was with windows 7 from factory, 1.09 is the latest version.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • ForestSkillLtd
    ForestSkillLtd Member Posts: 3 New User
    Thanks IronFly. It now has Win.8.1Pro (64) installed (non upgrade), so shouldn't I be able to install up to 2.18?
  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓

    Nope, you can't if your V5 had windows 7 from factory, even if you updated to windows 8.x

     

    the 2.xx version works only on V5 with windows 8.x from factory.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • ForestSkillLtd
    ForestSkillLtd Member Posts: 3 New User
    Thanks