Trojan_Hussar
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It's a 2007 laptop, so it's probably been out of warranty for some time. I will give them a call tomorrow and see if they are in a position to help. I've found a place in the US that has a replacement motherboard with warranty for £83 incl. delivery. Which is cheaper than simply buying a second hand 5720. Regards, Jason.
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Unfortunately despite swapping out a different CD/DVD+RW drive I'm still not able to flash this laptop. Acer refuse to help because I cannot give them the serial number (the sticker has faded away and I can't get into the BIOS to read it). They have denied the existence of a crisis disk and are recommending I send it to their service centre. It's an ICL50 5720 with a T7100 processor, it was running v1.06 but attempting to use the InsydeFlash utility in Windows gave the message "VERIFY ERROR" and locked the laptop up so that the only way to restart it was by pulling the battery. Incidentally I flashed the BIOS because with 4Gb installed the processor throttled back after a suspend/resume and the whole machine was reduced to a crawl. Now it's sitting here, unable to even recover from the BIOS recovery disks I've written. Looks like I owe my friend a new laptop. I've fixed and upgraded dozens of laptops and desktops before and *never* had this problem with a BIOS, all I can say is Acer have most certainly lost a potential customer over this. Regards, Jason.
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No luck unfortunately, I hold down Fn + Esc I get the red flash of the power light as I plug in the power supply. When I press the power button the CD-R spins up and I get a flashing light, then one of two things happen. Either it doesn't spin up again, or it spins up every minute, so I'm not sure which (if any) of these is the correct behaviour. I've tried putting the BIOS image onto a USB stick but there is no sign of any activity from the stick. I've checked the CD-R's are readable in a variety of different machines and they all seem fine. I'm toying with the idea of swapping out the DVD-RW drive and using a different one from another laptop just to see if that makes any difference. In effect I have a laptop which appears to have all the hallmarks of one that is capable of being flashed, but is refusing to comply! Regards, TH.
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Got back in this afternoon to find it still spinning up the v1.45A disc every minute or so. Popped the v1.16 BIOS disk in and this time it spun up once and has now gone quiet (but not switched off), the suspense is killing me! Regards, TH.
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Hrmm not looking terribly hopeful. Laptop spins up the CD every minute or so then spins down and repeats. Been doing this for an hour now, I've burned a v1.16 BIOS file to disc and may try that in a while. Anyone know if the 5720 will do a crisis flash from USB stick? Regards, TH.
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Left the laptop overnight and essentially nothing happened. I checked the CD-R and re-read the instructions and realised I'd missed a vital part. You have to hold down the Fn+Esc *BEFORE* you plug in the power and then press the power button. Tried it properly and the laptop is now sitting here on the bench, fan whirring and periodically accessing the CD-R so fingers crossed I'll leave it until it powers down and see what happens... My only thought is that I only have the v1.45a BIOS I downloaded which caused the problem in the first place, this machine was running v1.06 (very old version). If it doesn't work I'll have to see if I can find a more ancient version of the BIOS to try. Regards, TH.
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I have a bricked Acer Aspire 5720 (also ICL50) which I am trying to flash as we speak, the BIOS file I got from the Acer site is v1.45. Having unzipped the BIOS_v1.45.zip file, you can then unzip the executable file to get the .FD in this case it is CL50145A.FD. I'm hoping this is going to work, otherwise I have bricked a friends laptop trying to upgrade the BIOS using the crappy InsydeFlash Windows utility (this machine was still running BIOS v1.06). It's been sitting here flashing the hard drive light for 25 minutes now and no signs of life so far :-( Regards, TH.