Flashing bios in an Aspire 5515 without a working monitor

clayton88
clayton88 Member Posts: 9 New User
edited October 2023 in 2020 Archives
Hello All, I have a ASPIRE 5515 with the so called black screen of death.  I upgraded to Windows 10 and it worked well for a few days but now won't post to the LCD at all.  I then tried an external monitor and that worked for 1 or 2 reboots but now it won't post to that either.  I've gathered that I need to update the bios.  It was at version 1.   I downloaded the bios file from the support site but there is not a filename.fd in it.   It says to update, to update from a dos prompt command line (which I cannot do as a don't have a screen that works). 

I've read a few posts about naming the *.fd file very specifically to something and then booting with the FN + Esc + Power and a thumb drive in the laptop to get it to flash the new bios.   Can anyone provide more details on how to do this with the 5515 (where I cannot even find a bios download that has a file named like that). 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, ce

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  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,322 Trailblazer
    Try turning off the computer, disconnecting the battery and pressing the power for 60 seconds.
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  • clayton88
    clayton88 Member Posts: 9 New User
    Thanks for answering.  This didn't work.   Any other ideas?

  • clayton88
    clayton88 Member Posts: 9 New User
    Where is the .FD file?   I downloaded the bios from the ACER support site but there is not a .FD file in there...  What am i missing?
  • clayton88
    clayton88 Member Posts: 9 New User
    I tried the RAM swap with no effect.  From what I've read, I really think I need to reinstall the bios.  I've tried several procedures with no luck.  One suggested making a crisis disk with the bios which I tried.  The instructions were far to vague and I wasn't sure exactly what they were saying.
  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,322 Trailblazer
    I think you already tried that. However, what happens when you press fn + f5 or fn + f6?
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