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- ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY INSTALL
- ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY UPDATE
- ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY UPGRADE
- ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY PASSWORD
- ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY ISO
ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY UPDATE
After that, copy the DOS folder from the Acer BIOS update download to the root of the USB thumbdrive and boot the netbook in to FreeDOS. The easiest (and probably safest) way to update the BIOS is to again use UNetBootin to create a bootable USB thumbdrive of FreeDOS. But I found this didn’t work (all the right lights flashed but nothing actually happened). The problem here is that the BIOS update utility is geared towards Windows users.Īcer do have a help page covering updating the BIOS on the A110 or A115 models, which involves copying some files to a FAT32 formatted USB thumbdrive, holding Fn+Esc and powering on the netbook which should initiated the BIOS upgrade. Enter the SNID (found on the underside of the Aspire One) in to Acer’s download and support site to get the latest BIOS download. Unfortunately this didn’t resolve the battery issue. Now I had access to the BIOS I tried loading the default settings. Here, I was able to find the “user” and “supervisor” BIOS passwords. In one of the menus is a bunch of BIOS/CMOS tools and one of those tools can dump the plaintext strings found in the CMOS. To fix this I had to copy the isolinux.cfg file found inside the HBCD directory on the USB thumbdrive to the root of the USB thumbdrive, replacing the syslinux.cfg file. However, after booting from it I found the boot menu was broken.
ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY ISO
I downloaded the ISO and again used UNetBootin to create a bootable USB thumbdrive. My first thought was to remove the CMOS battery but after a quick Google, taking the Aspire One apart was a little too much trouble. Maybe clearing the BIOS settings and/or re-flashing the BIOS would help.Īs I pressed F2 to enter the BIOS setup I was prompted for a user password. But one clue was after I had installed Manjaro Linux, the battery was reported as “unknown”.
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This was either because the battery was dead or there was something wrong with the charging circuitry. Battery and BIOSĪs mentioned, the other issue was the battery.
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I also installed the Flash player plugin for Palemoon (although testing BBC iPlayer is slow with sound and video out of sync), AbiWord and Skype. So finally the Aspire One had a modern and fully functional OS, including sound, wireless, webcam etc.
ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY UPGRADE
I was then able to perform an upgrade to the latest Manjaro release, 16.06.1 (Daniella), released 11th June 2016. The Manjaro wiki has some handy pacman tips to resolve this. This turned out to be because the mirror list had select a location in South Africa first. I found that the package manager was extremely slow to download anything. The former is a Linux kernel optimised for netbooks and the latter is an optimised version of the Palemoon browser.
ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY INSTALL
Since the Aspire One doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive, I used UNetBootin to create a bootable USB thumbdrive from the ISO, booted, installed and rebooted successfully.Īfter logging in for the first time I was prompted to install the linux-netbook-manjaro package and palemoon-atom package. Specifically I downloaded the latest and greatest 32-bit version ( direct link to ISO). Next I tried Manjaro Netbook Edition, a community developed flavour of Manjaro Linux. Most of these are no longer actively developed, apart from a few. First I tried Lubuntu but after installing successfully, found it would get stuck booting and I didn’t have the inclination to troubleshoot it. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to comparisons of netbook-orientated Linux distributions. However, fast forward a few years and Windows XP is dead and a lot of the Linux distributions for netbooks are no longer actively developed and have fallen behind the times. A lot of customised Linux distributions started to appear, designed specifically for netbooks. It was capable of running Windows XP, various Linux flavours, FreeBSD and even OS X. When the Aspire One first came out there was a wide range of Operating Systems to choose from.
ACER ASPIRE ONE BIOS BATTERY PASSWORD
In addition I also found that a BIOS password (“user” and “supervisor”) had been set but the password wasn’t known. Secondly, the battery appeared to be dead and wouldn’t charge. Firstly, it was running Ubuntu 12.04 but the upgrade to Precise Pangolin had broken and wasn’t easily recoverable. I was given an Acer Aspire One ZG5 (A110) and asked to try to update it.