BIOS Recovery on the Acer Aspire One

After playing around a bit, my Aspire One (v3114) got bricked after a normal reboot (blank screen, power led and fan on, nothing else). There’s a nice recovery procedure for the BIOS at macles.

1. download the latest BIOS from Acer
2. format an USB stick with FAT32 / VFAT
3. put the files FLASHIT.EXE and ZG5_version.fd onto the stick
4. rename the ZG5-file to ZG5IA32.FD
5. now connect this stick to your AAO, also connect the battery and the power supply
6. hold Fn–ESC down while powering on the AAO
7. release when the Power-LED starts blinking
8. (maybe press the power button to initiate the process)¹I’m not sure whether this is neccessary as I don’t remember doing it when recovering my bricked A150X
9. ⚠️ DO NOT INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS!!! ⚠️
10. wait until the blinking ends and the AAO reboots a bit later

Somehow an A150L with the v3114 BIOS didn’t let me update it to v3304. The Power-LED was blinking and the LED on my flash drive flashed but after a few seconds, the A150 rebooted and the BIOS reported still the v3114.

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  I’m not sure whether this is neccessary as I don’t remember doing it when recovering my bricked A150X