This one’s pretty good, and is quite common recently with Acer and Windows 8.
Hopefully it will help a few of you out there that are 10 seconds away from throwing your laptop at the wall.
Lately, Acer’s laptops may randomly black screen and will no longer boot.
Causes: Not really sure. Probably something with a combination of a Windows/Driver update.
This may fix your issue as it fixed several machines here at the shop:
Symptoms: Machine turns on, however has a black screen with no acer logo, the backlight on the LCD may or may not be on.
CAUTION: Not taking responsibility if you toast your machine. follow the below instructions at your own risk. In most cases Acer Warranty should cover you, if you still have it. Call them and find out if you are uncomfortable with doing the below procedure.
CAUTION: please read the above caution again.
Step #1: Get your Acer BIOS update files – remember, you need to locate your correct bios for your serial # or model number. don’t mess this up.
Located here: http://support.acer.com
Locate by Model or Serial #
Step #2: Extract the Zip or EXE with WinRar or 7Zip into the root of your FAT32 formatted USB Thumb Drive – It should look like this:
Note: You must format your USB for FAT32, and please note that some acer bios downloads files are zip or extractable .exe
Step #3: Put the USB flash drive into one of the ports and make sure your laptop is off, battery in, and plugged into the wall. Any sudden loss of power could brick your machine.
Step #4: Hold ESC & FN key and while holding then press the power button.
Keep holding for a few moments (mine took about 30 seconds) until you see this:
Step #5: Your machine should boot again.
Step #6: DAT ACER!
MAN YOU SAVED MY LIFE I ALREADY WANTED TO CHANGE MOTHERBOARD! SO THANK YOU! I AM VERY VERY THANK YOU! IF THERE WERE WAY I EVEN DONATE YOU!
I do really want to thank the effort on doing such well explained and useful tuto. I expent half day searching how to deal with this annoying error. Great job. Greetings from Mexico 😀
I tried as you said but still no luck? My screen doesnt turn on even after holding for a minute
Fixed my Acer E5-471. Had black screen when booting with the backlight flashing every few seconds. Thank you!
thank you! this just worked for an Acer V5-552p-X637
NICE
I tried the above procedure but it did not work. I found another tutorial with the same problem of different model.
Different combination keys. Still it did not work.
I tried this procedure below.
Unplug the power.
Press and hold the FN + ESC keys.
Plug power supply into laptop (while holding keys)
Press the power button.
And it booted/updated the BIOS.
Thanks a lot.