Updating your Aspire One's Bios

Updating Aspire One's bios is little tricky but you can perform it easily using the following instructions

1. Goto http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=5814&formid=3394&website=AcerPanAm.com/au&siteid=8116&words=all&keywords=&areaid=12 and download the file Flash BIOS v3309

2. Download Unetbootin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/

3. It is a time consuming process to prepare a Bios flash drive from Linux so I want you to stick to the Windows machine.

4. So after downloading unetbootin on Windows

5. Open the program you'll find two drop down list boxes on top

6. In the select distribution list box select freedos, select the usb drive and click ok.

7. After downloading it'll prompt you to reboot, Now do not reboot.

8. Extract all the files from the Bios zip file into the USB disk.

9. Restart the machine, press f12 and select the USB disk.

10 . Now choose option 5 live.

11. Goto c:\

12. Run 3309.bat

13. After the flashing process the system will reboot.