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.
Link to
latest BIOS
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