Aspire One D150 bios upgrade = problems

[The_Other_One]

More of a warning than anything... I had some issues with my first D150 so I got it replaced. While reloading the new one I decided to upgrade the bios from 1.07 to 1.11. The machine booted once, did some driver installations then got stuck in an endless boot/BSOD. I reloaded the system but as soon as I loaded the Intel Chipset drivers (gotten directly from Acer) the laptop goes back to the BSoD cycle. The exact same drivers work just fine on the other laptop with BIOS 1.09.

I'm not really sure what to make of this. It acts like it has something to do with the SATA drivers. Setting the drive to IDE or ACPI makes no difference at this point. I tried installing with correct SATA drivers and installing in IDE mode without additional drivers.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but if anyone else has one of these netbooks, I suggest you hold off on the bios upgrades...

 

[Wilcoholic]

I wish I had read this post earlier. I just found out the hard way that the Bios update isn't reliable. Have you found any solution to this problem? Thanks

 

[The_Other_One]

No, I had two of them at the time (keyboard issue on one). Luckly I fixed the keyboard on the other one so the "broke" one was returned...

My only suggestion would be to try and reflash the bios. Assuming it still works, you could try booting to a DOS environment. If I'm not mistaking, they included a DOS based flash utility. You could probably downgrade to a previous BIOS release.