Though, if there is an issue with your BIOS program, then it can cause the Acer black screen of death. If it doesn't reboot, but keeps blinking, wait at least a few minutes before turning it off, and try again. BIOS, which stands for the Basic Input and Output System, is responsible for the overall booting operations of the system. After a while the power button stops blinking, and the computer reboots by itself. It will now access the files on the flash drive and initiate flashing the BIOS. The power button starts blinking at this point. Press Fn and Esc simultaneously, keep them pressed and press the power button. Turn the computer off, and verify both battery and AC adapter are plugged in. Rename the BIOS file to ZG5IA32.FD before proceeding. Put both FLASHIT.EXE and the BIOS file with FD suffix in the root directory of the flash drive. It does not need to be bootable.ĭownload the latest BIOS, and extract all files. This procedure is also known as Crisis Disk.įirst format an USB flash drive with FAT. The Acer Aspire One has a built-in BIOS recovery routine, which can boot into a minimal BIOS environment via a special boot block to re-flash the BIOS, even if the system does not pass POST and does otherwise not boot anymore. I had a look at the link but if you read it carefully the problem at issue was that the poster had been altering settings in his BIOS.Īt this stage it will do no harm to try this