Hi,

My daughter has accidentally managed to kill her Acer gaming desktop it has a blank screen after updating and when you press the power button the fans spin, light comes on and it makes 1 long and 1 short beep and no attempt to boot.

All basic troubleshooting has been done we replaced CPU, GPU and RAM from a working machine and no joy, I also noticed a post on here with the same issue and it was the BIOS. I am pretty sure also because it was doing a BIOS update that stopped it working, she knocked the keyboard out by accident during the update and the screen just went...

Thanks, I will do the above sorry I don't have the machine to hand my daughter messaged me in a panic and she had tried everything diagnostic wise already before realising it was the BIOS update she did that caused it, I jumped the gun and wrote here thinking it was a simple fix with it being exactly the same fault, but reading above it looks like it will be a flash with a programmer job which is what I suspected when she told me what she had done.

I will have the machine with me shortly as it is not at my house so I will be able to get the above done then without issue and will post...

Hi,

My daughters machine has exactly the same problem after doing the BIOS update the 1 long and 1 short beep code, any chance you could share how you did it or produce a similar file for her? The serial number of her machine is DGE2VEK0032130284F9600 and hers is also an N50-640 model number.

I have done a ton of looking around on how to manually flash this machine as I assumed it was going to have to be done through the diagnostic pins with a flasher as it was somehow bricked, but your post is the first I have seen with the same issue and an actual solution that fixed...

Hi,

I am an electronics enthusiast and repaired and done plenty of things over the years with games consoles, plus I work as an SRE for a tech company with over 22 years experience in the field of IT starting out as a field tech, moving into sys admin and then up from there. I am pretty good with a soldering iron and have modified virtually every games consoles that has come out since the 90s!