The problem started out with a bad sector on the HDD which prevented Windows from working.
Trying to boot from a recovery CD revealed, that USB booting isn't functional. Boot order, I thought. Trying to access the BIOS causes the machine to freeze.
Next up, I tryed flashing the BIOS, hoping that overwriting the BIOS would fix the freezing. This has worked a number of times on older Acer netbooks.
Which I failed to notice was, that it had an Insyde BIOS, which isn't strictly happy when introduced to .fd files that Acer provides. There are some utilities which convert those to different formats, but trying out one originally meant for Phoenix BIOSs made the situation even worse.
The machine no longer boots at all, although the crisis recovery function seems to be still operational, so theres some hope, that with the proper BIOS in the proper format, this machine can yet be saved.
Does anyone have experience with Insyde crisis recovery functions?
Trying to boot from a recovery CD revealed, that USB booting isn't functional. Boot order, I thought. Trying to access the BIOS causes the machine to freeze.
Next up, I tryed flashing the BIOS, hoping that overwriting the BIOS would fix the freezing. This has worked a number of times on older Acer netbooks.
Which I failed to notice was, that it had an Insyde BIOS, which isn't strictly happy when introduced to .fd files that Acer provides. There are some utilities which convert those to different formats, but trying out one originally meant for Phoenix BIOSs made the situation even worse.
The machine no longer boots at all, although the crisis recovery function seems to be still operational, so theres some hope, that with the proper BIOS in the proper format, this machine can yet be saved.
Does anyone have experience with Insyde crisis recovery functions?
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