Acer BIOS Headache

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I have an Acer Aspire 1830 bought in '98, i would like to add a 20g HD ontop of the current 4g, but with the current BIOS it is not recognised. Info from BIOS Wizard 2.1 as follows.

BIOS Man :Acer
BIOS ID :ACR33000-M12-971027-R01-D3 R0 01 EN
BIOS Date :01/01/97

BIOS ROM size :256K
Chipset :ALi M1531 rev 178
Super I/O Chip :SMC 93xAPM rev 1 found at port 3F0h

Please if anyone knows of an up date and where to get it I am getting really tired of surfing for it. I have tried, without any luck, the Acer web sites (all of them), also the ALi site. and the ATI site, because the only flash I get at startup is 'ATI Mach64 SGRAM SG BIOS'm in the upper left corner right before the manufacturer ID flash.

Also I am no longer running Win 95 but have upgraded to Win ME.

Thanks

Having searched the Acer site and the webb... you probably will have to use and addin eide card or drive overlay software.

Been here:

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/ftp/ftp.html

-> desktops -> mainboard

You have to get a clue, what mobo model you have, first.

Bye
Thomas

[edwin]

List of bios ID -> mainboard model for Acer:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/bios_id_5.html

You appear to have a V58LA mainboard. Check the top surface fo the motherboard for this number to make sure.

Next go here:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/desktop ... ard/V58LA/

both manual and bios are available.

aflash:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/utilities/aflash/

instructions:
http://www.acer-ee.com/service/mn_bios_upgrade.shtml

you will be doing the upgrade at your own risk. We will not be held responsible for any problems arising from using this information.