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Flashing Bios - Netbook - Acer to Packard Bell?
Alias_Omega
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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.
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.
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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.0
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