Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

[passete]

I'm desperate to find the bios for this mobo, i got the mobo naked and i don't know from which desktop it comes.
I have made a backup from bios chip, and it's a winbond W25X64 and it's a 8mb file.
all the bios that I was able to find are 3mb on size.
Please Help me.

Thank you

[passete]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

Anyone to help please ?
Thanks

[stj]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

upload the 3meg bios file, acer website is useless.

[passete]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

upload the 3meg bios file, acer website is useless.

Here the backup from my bios chip :
https://mega.co.nz/#!nY1AlJDJ!FLQnJV...UvepUU90htxhPw

And here the bios from Acer site :
https://mega.co.nz/#!PM1mVRiZ!7g6kfK...F5BeM5hybuAMTU

Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks

[stj]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

it's a UEFI bios, those use a hidden partition on the harddrive, i'm not sure how to get around those.

what's wrong wih the machine?

[passete]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

previous owner (eBay) says that it stuck on Acer logo, no other explanation, it seems that it happened after a update.
Here, I only get the fan to run fast, but no keyboard, video, mouse activity.
But even to get it started, I need to start the mobo several times, causes it seems that the psu is not giving enough juice (tried a 400 and 550 watts psu's).

[stj]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

unplug all the sata cables and try it.
what cards are in it?

and post a foto, i'v never seen an acer desktop board.

[passete]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a



Please, anyone to help ?

[stj]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

Please, anyone to help ?

so what happens if you unplug the drives?
you cant just flash a UEFI bios if the table on the drive is corrupt or the version does not match!


let me be more specific.
UEFI bios stores configuration data and other "stuff" on a hidden drive partition.
and bad sata drives can stop a motherboard starting.

[passete]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

so what happens if you unplug the drives?
you cant just flash a UEFI bios if the table on the drive is corrupt or the version does not match!


let me be more specific.
UEFI bios stores configuration data and other "stuff" on a hidden drive partition.
and bad sata drives can stop a motherboard starting.

It means that if my hdd dies, I'm stuck and need to buy another mobo ?
I bought the mobo alone/naked, well with the rear plate.

[stj]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

no, it means if your harddrive dies it can stop the board starting until it's unplugged.

so you have a board and cpu + ram.
are you testing it with a psu?
show a foto of the setup.

[pm1235]

Re: Bios for Acer Desktop Motherboard IPIMB-AR Rev1.02a

It's Acer Aspire M3985 mainboard.

[zel84]

Here the backup from my bios chip :
https://mega.co.nz/#!nY1AlJDJ!FLQnJV...UvepUU90htxhPw

And here the bios from Acer site :
https://mega.co.nz/#!PM1mVRiZ!7g6kfK...F5BeM5hybuAMTU

Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks

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