Ace, I have tried that and the screen is still not turning on while the laptop

does have power going through it. (LED and fans are on when turned on but screen doesn't turn on at all)

There is no sound playing so that might suggest either

Windows is not booting or it's muted.

There are no beeps at all.

As for your last question, I'm not sure.

Perhaps it has something to do with the CMOS / BIOS battery (coin shaped battery)

or hibernation as the first time this problem happened (screen not turning on)

it was fixed by replacing the CMOS battery.

The problem I think was caused by using hibernation

every day for several days in a row.

But after a few months of replacing the CMOS battery,

it seems to have run out or something else has gone wrong in the laptop.

And now replacing the CMOS battery again doesn't fix the problem any more.

I also had a USB with some boot software

which also helped provide an intermittent temporary fixed (unreliable temporary fix)

but even this does not work any more.

This problem seems to have gotten worse.

For all I know, it could be an unplugged component,

static building in the motherboard,

fried motherboard, fried graphics card,

something wrong with the CMOS contacts,

a corrupt BIOS. etc.

I don't know how to narrow it down

but I connected the laptop to a TV via HDMI and even VGA

and still no signal.

So I was wondering maybe a BIOS flash would

work but I don't know what to rename the WPH file in order

to boot and flash the BIOS while

the laptop starts up (presumably without Windows).

This is what FLASH.bat says in Notepad:

Note:

OSMode is actually

: DOSMode (withOUT the space between : and DOSMode)

and

osFlash is actually

: DosFlash (withOUT the space between : and DosFlash)

@echo off

OSMode
echo *********** JE70-DN BIOS Flash Utility  ***********
REM ***************************************************************
REM *** Just modify the above part ********************************
echo Notice:
echo 1. This procedure may replace your BIOS!
echo    If you don't want to do it, press Ctrl-C to cancel.
echo 2. Make sure you plug in the AC adapter before flashing BIOS.
echo    If not, DO NOT flash!
echo 3. This utility will check if the battery capacity is over 30%%. 
echo    If not, it will stop to flash the BIOS.
pause

ACERACDC
if errorlevel 255 goto DosFlash
goto end


osFlash
phlash16 /x /s /c /bbl /mode=3 JE70D118.WPH
goto end


:end

cd ..

Do you mean just delete the "pause" word since that's the only

word in that line?

So let me get this straight:

1) I have a 4GB USB 2.0 stick with a light indicator.

Can I use that?

Should I format it to FAT or FAT32 ??

2) So then I should go into the DOS folder of

the downloaded BIOS driver for my laptop model,

delete the "pause" word from the .BAT file

and then copy and paste the files

from that DOS folder

into the root directory of the USB?

Is this correct?

I'm guessing FAT is more likely to work than FAT 32 but I don't know.

In the DOS folder (there was a WinFlash folder but that just has

a useless .exe file since I cannot boot into Windows apparently)

these are the files present:

ACERACDC.exe

FLASH.bat

JE70D118.ROM

JE70D118.WPH

phlash16.exe

So after copy and pasting these files (with the edited FLASH.bat file omitting "pause")

I should then plug it into the laptop,

hold FN + Esc and turn the laptop on?

Then let go of the key combination when I see the USB light indicator

flickering? (Will that take long? A few seconds?)

And then wait for the flickering to stop or maybe wait 20 minutes

to ensure any BIOS flashing is complete?

Also, is it a problem that my power button doesn't work?

(The power button ribbon is damaged beyond repair unless I get a replacement ribbon)

Hence I have to turn the laptop on by plugging it in and

turn it off by unplugging it (laptop battery has been taken out).

Is that a problem or would it still work?

Since the laptop turns on as soon as I plug it in.