ttclark

Thanks for your input. I've tried a few things. There appears to be no bios "lock" in the bios parameters. There is no Antivirus option in the bios. I decided to try winflash in safe mode (WinXP) and winflash immediately says " Onboard bios is not Award bios! ". It doesn't do that in full mode ! MSINFO32 says it is Award, but it is supplied by Acer of course. I have got a DOS version, but in light of the message in safe mode I am very wary. I can only find R01-C0 on the Acer site. I know that R01-B4 will take a Athlon 4400+ . Does anybody out there have an Acer with bios above R01-B1 that they could save with winflash? Cheers

I want to upgrade my Acer PowerM8 bios rom R01-B1 to latest R01-C0 for CPU upgrade. The Acer winflash seems to go through the rom flash, but fails " Erase failure.Maybe hardware protected " and then " FWH rom is write protected. Please make sure whether lockout jumpers is set to correct or not! " Luckily I saved the original bios file, and I can reload this OK, and the PC reboots OK. I do not know if the PC would have rebooted with the failed bios - I dare not restart. Acer doesn't want to know!