Acer Aspire 5230 Aspire 5230 Service Guide - Page 180

Steps for BIOS Recovery by USB Disk: Before doing this, one Crisis USB Disk should be prepared ready in hand. The Crisis Diskette could be made by executing the Crisis Disk program in another system with Windows XP OS. 1. Plug in USB Flash Disk. 2. Run the selected formatting program. 3. Select Quick Format and click Start. 4. Select Format Final button then exit. 5. Copy JAT10X64.fd to USB flash disk root directory. IMPORTANT:Do not place any other *.fd files in the USB flash disk root directory. 6. In the power-off state, press and hold Fn+Esc then press the Power button. The system powers on and the Crisis BIOS Recovery process begins. BIOS Boot Block begins restoring the BIOS code from the Crisis USB disk to BIOS ROM on the failed system. When the Crisis flash process is finished, the system restarts with a workable BIOS. Update to the latest version BIOS for the system using the regular BIOS flashing process. 168 Chapter 5