Kevin Whitworth / Jacurutu

hi,
i have the same problem with you,
i also already read the step to fix the bios,
the problem is, that when i press fn+esc the press power button, the power led won't blink

please help

Sorry you're suffering problems too. I didn't do too much research into the problem, other than finding the couple of websites I listed in the post which both had pretty much the same instructions, and I found they worked for me.

If you're finding that the power light isn't flashing, my best guess is that for some reason the AA1 isn't finding the updated BIOS file to re-flash itself. So, here's a few suggestions to try and see if it fixes it:

1) Check is that the USB stick you are using is formatted in FAT (not FAT32) mode - my guess is that the BIOS recovery mode in the AA1 is probably limited to the file system it can support, and will only work with FAT.
2) If you've tried that, then perhaps see if you can try with another USB stick - eg some of the Sandisk U3 compatible sticks (and no doubt other makes too) also have a second partition with the U3 software on it, and it's possible that would interfere with the AA1 reading the BIOS update correctly. You might also want to try using a USB stick that's 2 GB or smaller - as I seem to recall FAT only supports 2 GB file systems sizes, so even if you've formatted a larger (eg 4 GB) USB stick with FAT, it could cause issues.
3) Check that you've renamed the BIOS file exactly as per the instructions - again, I guess the AA1 BIOS recovery mode is looking for exactly the right filename, so if you've not renamed it, or renamed it slightly wrong, it won't pick it up. I'd check that the you've used the right case too (ZG5IA32.FD not zg5ia32.fd), just to be sure.
4) Try the memory stick in different USB ports on the AA1 - I don't believe it matters, but you never know, one might be faulty, or the AA1 might not be able to use them all for BIOS recovery.
5) If I recall correctly, the power light doesn't blink until after you release Fn+Esc - so hold them down, press power on, keep them held down for about 3 seconds, then release Fn+Esc. Now the power light should flash.

If none of that helps, then I suggest you take a trip over to AcerAspireOneUser (http://www.aspireoneuser.com/) and have a look through their forums (http://www.aspireoneuser.co...). I've found some helpful info on there in the past, and if you can't find anything by searching, you could always ask and hopefully you'll get an answer from someone with more knowledge than me.

I hope this helps - let me know if you succeed!

What a hassle! I hope that it doesn't happen again too.. or happen for me for that matter! can't imagine anything scarier really than the "blank screen of death".

Whatever the problem "is" with Acer BIOS flashing, not sure if it's the convoluted supposedly necessary use of a flash drive when flashing the BIOS, that or maybe it's just becuase I read that crap and found it like something out of NASA and I decided to simply read the BIOS zip's readme (which simply said double clik the insydeflash.exe) and I flash my AOA150's BIOS that way. In any respect, I'm confident that I would have encountered the same snafu either way I'd have tried it. My issue was that after the flashing, the machine shutdown and didn't restart (maybe we're supposed to wait for XX minutes for it to restart, but I gave up waiting after a few minutes). So I pressed the power button, the machine got to my logon screen, seemingly accepted my password and then instantly the thing shutdown without any usual protocol or even so much as an error prompt. Thereafter it any re-boots resulted in the black screen having startup options. And no matter which option I chose, still within seconds shutdown, it shut back down. I could access the BIOS thru F12 and F2 seemingly for a few moments longer, again would shutdown, but I had time to tab over and choose boot order, even tho the F12 method only oddly afforded booting from hard drive or from Legacy PCI Device. Odder yet, when using F2, the BIOS displaed the usual six optional devices, and when I selected my external reader ("USB CDROM") and tried using my system and even my recovery disk(s), the machine still shutdown after a few seconds of reading the disks. Eventually I fell back on my limited experience with these infernal machines and took the battery out, unplugged the AC power jack, pressed the power button for one minute, then re-assembled things and only then the machine started up normally. When will someone produce a machine that works for us instead of the other way around?

Sounds like a painful experience - glad you got it sorted in the end though!