If the second try doesn’t work, then you’ll probably have to send it off for repair.Ĭredit and a boatload of thanks to for the instructions I found and hosting the BIOS files! The keypress sequence is a little tricky. If it doesn’t work, try reflashing again. When the reflashing is done, the AAO will reboot and, hopefully, you’ll be back to normal. Mine took ~3 minutes, but I’d advise that you let it sit there for at least 5 minutes just in case your’s takes longer.
Press the power button again once and wait. Press and hold FN + ESC and press the power button to turn it on. Make sure the AAO is turned off, the battery is attached and the power adaptor is plugged in. Make a copy of the BIOS file and rename it as ZG5IA32.FD (this appears to be very important – my reflash failed until I did the copy & rename). Unzip the BIOS files and copy them to the USB drive. Start UNetbootin and choose FreeDOS as the distribution. Format the USB drive using the FAT file system, not FAT32. I used the most recent version from here: ĭownload all the files to an easy to find location. A working USB thumbdrive you can erase. This worked for me, but it might not for you, so do this at your own risk. It’s very easy to do, but the steps are a bit unclear so here’s my attempt to make the whole thing painless. I don’t know if it’s officially supported by Acer or if it will void your warranty, but if the computer’s a paperweight now anyway, what the hell? It seems that a lot of people had success reflashing the BIOS from a USB drive using tools provided by Acer. After reading many stories of warranty repair or replacement, I was just about to dig up my receipts when I found this post: Re: Dead aspire one. I found this thread Dead aspire one and it looked like many others had a similar experience. I went to the Acer Aspire One User Forum and started looking thru the Hardware section. No POST, no BIOS, no hard drive light activity, just the power button LED on and the fan running fast. It won’t hurt anything, just a couple extra steps.Īfter a normal restart yesterday, my Aspire One booted into just a black screen. 
Updated : After doing this a few times and reading some of the user comments, I’ve realized that you don’t need to use UNetbootin.
Updated : If you can still boot into Windows, see Aspire One Black Screen of Death – Part 2 for a new utility from Acer that makes an update to the BIOS on a working Aspire One a lot easier.īased on the amount of traffic this post still gets, and other sites with articles describing the same problem & solution, there are still lots of Aspire One users who continue to have the same problem, I’ve updated the instructions, with my comments below, and a provided a download of the last BIOS file from Acer’s site, with the BIOS file renamed and in the Dos_Flash directory to make easier & faster to get your netbook running again.
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