Howto: Flash BIOS on Acer Aspire One
Donate: www.Zhuk.co.uk — Donators — Thank you for donating, if you have recently donated please wait as your name will appear below shortly. Gill Poole – £20 I recently had the Black Screen Of Death so I tried to Flash the BIOS and it worked again! Download the BIOS from: www.acerpanam.com 1: Extract the .ZIP 2: Rename the Bios name from 3309.fd to zg5ia32.fd 3: Copy zg5ia32.fd and Flashit.exe to USB flash drive. 4: A: Make sure the power cable is in! B: The laptop is turned OFF! C: Plug the USB stick in! Press and HOLD down the FN and ESC key TOGETHER Then press the power button, Whilst holding the buttons! Release the power button and continue holding FN and ESC for about 5 seconds. Release the buttons and the power light will start to blink. Let the laptop run and DO NOT press anything This can take upto 7 mins When it’s done the laptop will restart. It should now work 
This is for the Acer Aspire One netbook laptop.
Posted by Sam Daniels
please help me i dont know where to go to download i went to link but idk what to do after that
Dude you are the bomb.
Followed your instructions. Was very cnfused as I was using the embedded SD slot with the flashit and fd file.
Heard your comments and it hit me….put the SD in a thumb reader ….followed instructions…..Laptop restored.
Thanks so much.
Joe you are a life saver, if i knew you i would hug you and get you a present. Thank you so so much for posting this video.
I have tried this on a laptop, but i can’t get the light to blink. Any suggestions?
Same here. I unplugged, took out the battery, then put it back in after about one minute. The power came back on. If that isn’t working, unplug, take out the battery and replug leaving out the battery. I’ve just found this page so I’m still working on getting my acer to start up again. Best of luck!
Hey Joe, Thanks for saving my Acer! I’m sending you a little something for your trouble; everyone should!
@joecox406 please help me joe!!!
did ALL you said – downloaded bios from acer – unzipped – sent flashit.exe to usb stick, renamed the 3310 file to ZG5IA32.FD – sent to stick – put stick in aspire 1- pressed fn and esc and then power button, then released power button keeping fn and esc pushed in, but the power button does not flash – what did i do wrong??? do i need to download some kind of ‘boot up program into the stick? is the 3310 file the problem?
Hi,
Thanks for your help !
Do you think I can use the same tip on an Acer aspire 5520g ????
Just Acer Aspire One, you need a different BIOS file and possibly method for other manufactures or models.
Hi
Can U tell me if the Bios Flash will work on any machine, example DELL, Sony Vaio, etc or will it just work on Acer Aspire One netbooks? I will be waiting for ur reply. c yaa
Thanks!! Your scary voice just saved my life!!!
Worked out nice and smooth…
Thanks one more time.
joecox406 Thanx very much have not been able to use my little lappy for 5 months just been gathering dust ,i saw your lesson by accident and now it is as good as new cheers
omg that voice makes me want to kill someone
Hi there … I have the same problem as everyone else – power button lights up but black screen. So … I followed the instructions but so far no luck. When I let go of the FN and Ecs keys the power button stops flashing and nothing happens. I’ve tried several times and left the lappy with the flash drive in it up to half an hour but nothing happens
Any other tips I should try?
Try it again, read the video description also this will help.
Thank you for extra. information.
No problem.
Not this BIOS version, you will need a different BIOS.
It will work with anything.
Sorry for VERY late reply just reading comments, you rename it from 3309.fd to zg5ia32.fd, Right click it then click Rename.
For those of you with similar questions as me….here is what i did and it worked.
Downloaded the bios from acer, but it was 3310 not 3309; i still renamed it as the video instructed and renamed the flashit to flashit.exe. I did this to the files in the dos folder. I did not reformat my usb key, I simply copied all the existing files onto a folder on my desktop and then erased it. Then i copied the 2 bios files on my usb stick and followed the instructions –
worked like charm
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hi there… i have notebook acer aspire 3000 .i have download the bios ,but i dont
know wich file i shut put in usb drive.
can you help me pls. thanks
This has saved me twice now with my acer aspire one netbook. Thank you so much for posting this.