Flashing Bios - Netbook - Acer to Packard Bell?

Alias_Omega

I have a Packard Bell Dot S netbook which suffered a display issue, the screen was black/white however the HDMI display was all good.

I purchased an Acer D270 from eBay with a damaged screen, swapped the motherboard over and were back in business.

I have an issue now, the netbook is a Packard Bell which is owned by Acer. The system bios indicates its an Acer Netbook, and the keyboard shortkeys are all wrong now.

I have downloaded the Packard Bell Dot S bios (KAV80.fd) however it fails to flash, it wont let me. I have managed to flash the bios with the ZE7 unlocked bios which gives me more features (i.e. increased video ram), and changed the start-up screen from Acer to one I have created myself.

I suspect I may need to go back into WinHex and exit the .fd file, and re-flash it again.

Can anyone help me out?

I suspect it might be easier to purchase a D270 keyboard...and live with it.

Neil_Jones

That's to be expected, as you've changed the board. The BIOS you've downloaded won't work because it's not the same board.

The keyboard shortcut keys won't work, they're unique to each model. Just get a keyboard for the D270 to get the function keys working.