Acer Aspire 5520 Bios

[tvone2]

Has anyone flashed an updated BIOS from the Acer.euro site???
My bios is v1.08... I wonder why it is not in the list????

bios list reads..
v1.07
v1.11
v1.21
v1.30

[tvone2]

Just flashed v1.3 on my 5520 5716 and I thought I bricked it!
After a funny little (long@ss) restart..
It works..
I flashed it in vista..
Download bios
unzip 2 folders
run "flash32"........ *not for everyone*
It cut the p.o.s.t. time in half...
No other performance or bios selections..
I could not find any info on the bios changes/fixes
*I think I took a large ri$k*

[addman]

Got my 5520 a couple of days ago, is p.o.s.t. same as bootup time? I´d really like to flash my bios if it cuts the boot-up time in half but at the same time I´d rather have a slow booting laptop than a bricked one LOL!

[tvone2]

Pre Operating System Test..
Yes it does speed up overall BOOT time..
the stumble(wait) before windows would load is gone..

[bin_asc]

Does anyone know if it has some improvements ? And does it work on a AS5520G

[Mack1982]

Can someone post the link for this BIOS Update? Its very hard to find stuff on acers website. (Still looking for empowering software)

Thanks

[Zoomastigophora]

Have you tried this:

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5520/

[bin_asc]

Well, I flashed it by accident. I opened the programm to see what is was all about and it started flashing. No turning aroung. I just hope everything will be ok, as acer didn`t inclue a changelog with it, and 1.21 and 1.3 were released the same day ! Well, if anyone has issues, do post here, so i`ll know to revert to the old bios that came with the laptop.

[tvone2]

v1.32 is out..
no update information given..

[bin_asc]

Oh boy (