Bricked? I think so...

I hosed my AOA110 when I flashed the BIOS. Immediately after flashing it the first time I noticed that the fan spun up considerably, several seconds later it powers off. The fan continued to kick in to high gear every time I'd boot the computer, resulting in a crash several seconds later. So I found the fn+esc method and thought to myself...that ought to work great...unless the thing overheats (presumably) and shuts down 8 seconds into it. Considering it was already half-bricked I figured what the hell and prepared the flash drive.

During flashing the AOA110 powered off, now the fn+esc method doesn't seem to get the power button flashing like it did before and the only thing I see is the LED on the power button. I can't imagine what I could possibly due to get this thing working again. Any ideas?

 

This happened to me with my d250. I have ordered a new bios chip because that seems to be the only solution i could find now. I will post a video how as soon as i preform a bio chip replacement.

but honestly i know how much it sucks to get a bricked aspire after a failed flash recovery. sorry to hear someone has the same problem

 

Cheaper than a new AspireOne! I like this idea. Where did you get this BIOS chip, Acer? I'm about to tear this puppy apart and look for it. Done some board level repairs before so this should be a fun exercise.

Thanks for the quick response!

 

Before you give up on the machine try booting from a usb memory stick or external CD drive using a distro like LinuxPuppy. You may have just screwed up the power management settings so the box thinks it is overheating.

 

Use this link for your A110 :http://cgi.ebay.com/Acer-Aspire-One...tops_Nov05?hash=item23063f5279#ht_1175wt_1165

Use this link for a A250 : http://cgi.ebay.com/Acer-Aspire-One...ptops_Nov05?hash=item230645578a#ht_999wt_1165

I am makeing a video about it soon but it should not be too hard since am only 15 :lol:

 

Jacob, I appreciate your response. Have you actually performed the BIOS chip repair? Can you recommend a desoldering hot air pencil that won't make the repair more costly than a replacement? I bought this thing for $100 and I'm not interested in purchasing $150 worth of equipment to fix this.

I have a cheap desoldering bulb but it's much too large to be effective on this particular component.

@ Jimux: If the unit won't post; Linux certainly can't help the issue.

 

I found a mini butane soldering torch that just might do the job for me. It belongs to a friend of mine but others are available online for as low as $20...

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1260 ... 0001&aff=Y

 

You did not say it would not POST in the original. Linux is a two part boot process with the first part only a few seconds long, so it is always worth testing to exclude the possibility.
Rather than attempting to desolder/solder the BIOS chip have you considered buying a box with a damaged screen and transferring your working parts over? Manual soldering on machine assembled boards is always a risk.

 

I have a very simple Bios chip removal procedure.
1) Bridge the four pins on each side of the chip with solder.
2) Use two soldering irons, and heat both sides together.
3) Slide the chip off the side of the motherboard.
4) Clean the mounting pads with desoldering braid.
5) Solder opposite corners of the new chip and then complete the soldering of the remaining six pins.

 

Hey guys I have been trying to revive a bad flash bios on an acer aspire one for a few weeks now trying different flash drives following the directions etc, even posted about it here viewtopic.php?f=17&t=21094 and no matter what I do the aspire one will not "kick in" with the flash drives (they aren't being read or something), so it just sits in flashing power mode without really doing anything flash wise no matter how long i leave it on or how many flash drives or attempts i make I just get nothing from it.

So I am pretty sure I need to swap out that bios chip, mine is an aspire one AOA150 ZG5 and I was wondering if anyone knows where this chip is located on the board, how many pins it has, and how tiny are the pins on the chip?

I do have soldering experience, put in/fixed many game system chips years ago as a summer job, replaced and fixed a few motherboards and daughter boards in the past on laptops etc, just was hoping for some pics, video walkthru, anything that might help in the process to determine if it's worth fixing etc.

Bill