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It's unfortunate that the manufacturer makes it this hard to recover from problems like this.

(Fast Boot etc) Also make sure the legacy USB is enabled. D.) Make sure that all win 8 options are disabled. C.) Insert your FAT32 formatted usb stick.

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B.) Download and install the Forum flash tool.

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Once I had flashed the chip the laptop booted right up to windows login without a hitch. 1.) >Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<< A.) Download the attached archive and place it on your desktop. bin file and allowing you to flash this back onto your chip. MSI diseña y fabrica Placas Base, PC All-In-One(Todo en Uno), Tarjetas Gráficas, Portátiles, Netbook, Tablet PC y muchos más productos informáticos.

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bin file without all the extra update stuff, reducing the size of the. Open Command Prompt in windows and use extractor.exe. Find a copy of this program and extract it to the area where you're update. Here is where a program called InsydeImageExtractor comes into play. bin has all kinds of extras inside increases the file size too much to write to the chip. bin file, one might think you could just flash this back onto the Winbond. bin in the temp folder and then copy that off to a place you can access it (remember, once you close the bios updater program it will delete the files and folder.) Now with the stock bios update. As mentioned above, use the website to download the bios update, run exe, find the. This USB method didn't work for me as I believe my bios was too corrupted to even making it to loading anything from the USB.įor this method we will modify a stock bios update to a flashable. Hold function button and esc button, power on and you will begin the restore. This will take you the exact name and file extension that the bios will look for to recover. Once the files are on the flash drive, insert the drive with the power off. Find the file, Export it then open with notepad and look for the. bin file with a program such as UEFITool. (IF you want you know exactly what file your computer will look for and have a copy of your bios on hand, you can search the. Drop the contents of this folder into your flash drive and modify the. These bin files will be what you will use to recover. bin files depending on the version of bios update. This will create a temp folder /users/youraccount/appdata/temp/ The folder it will be in will have numbers and letter, 7.skd92. From there download, open, and run the update exe file. You can find BIOS updates on the manufacturers website. Now you'll need the need correct file to put onto the USB drive. I chose a 2gb (It helps if it has a light so you can see the read/write) To prepare the USB flash drive you need a low volume flash drive. Flashing your bios IC chip with a Programmer such as the CH341a using the CH341a program v 1.18 (HAS to be this version) There are two methods of recovery, I'll explain my experience with bothĢ. The power button would light up solid along with the keyboard and mousepad but would power cycle every 15 seconds. I ended up with a corrupt bios which wouldn't allow the laptop to boot. I feel the need to make a resource available to everyone that has ended up in the situation I was in,which was having bios issues with the Acer Predator G9-973 laptop.įirst I want say that this laptop uses the Winbond Q25128FV chip and also will produce a rather large 16mb bios file.

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