The biggest fear for people who work on their laptops is that they may break it. They are fragile machines and require the right knowledge and guidance to use. But if you have the patience and can learn how to do this, you can save yourself money and even make some money using your new skill!
How can you save money? Simple, you spend less money to buy a part than you do to buy a whole new laptop. Let’s face it, with all the new programs and games coming out for computers the hardware needs to be upgraded to keep up with everything.What they don’t tell you is that all they did was probably change the processor, add some memory and put in a hard drive with more storage.
If you knew how to open up your own laptop and work with the parts inside all you would need to do is buy the new parts. These Videos were a savior! At first nervous and skeptical because all laptops are not created equal, but its time to put fears behind. After watching the preview of this video it seemed that these guys at Podnutz knew what they were talking about.Not only did safely learn how to take laptop and it’s components apart and put it back together, but we were able to upgrade hardware and make laptop even faster, which was a lot cheaper than going out and buying a brand new one!
Podnutz is the name of a series of videos that teaches you how to repair your laptop. If you do have some sort of technical background or experiences with desktops then using these videos will help you expand your skills.
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The Acer Aspire One has a built-in BIOS recovery routine, which can boot into a minimal BIOS environment via a special boot block to re-flash the BIOS, even if the system does not pass POST and does otherwise not boot anymore. This procedure is also known as Crisis Disk.
First format an USB flash drive with FAT. It does not need to be bootable.
Download the latest BIOS, and extract all files. Put both FLASHIT.EXE and the BIOS file with FD suffix in the root directory of the flash drive. The files must not be in a folder. Rename the BIOS file to ZG5IA32.FD before proceeding. It only works with this exact filename.
Turn the AA1 off, and verify both battery and AC adapter are plugged in.
Press Fn and Esc simultaneously, keep them pressed and press the power button. Release Fn+Esc after a few seconds. The power button starts blinking at this point. Press it once. The AA1 will now access the files on the flash drive and initiate flashing the BIOS. After a while the power button stops blinking, and the AA1 reboots by itself. Wait patiently.
If it doesn’t reboot, but keeps blinking, wait at least a few minutes before turning it off, and try again.
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The BIOS authentication error (Blink code 6) is extremely rare. It is the result of a discrepancy between the BIOS and the hardware that is installed on the computer. This error occurs when the BIOS cannot authenticate signatures from the hardware on the system. The purpose of the BIOS authentication is to be sure that no one has tampered with the BIOS on the computer.
If a BIOS authentication failure occurs, the computer automatically performs a BIOS recovery. If the computer does not automatically recover the BIOS, manually perform a BIOS recovery. To manually perform a BIOS recovery, press all four arrow keys at the same time to cause the BIOS to go to the EFI partition to find and recover the current BIOS.
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