Yesterday I got a broken laptop from my customer to service. This time it wasn’t broken because of a virus, power failure, or any hardware problem. But this time when you turn it on it only shows a Black Screen of Death. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 4730Z. After I Googled it for a while I found that many people experience the same issue.
I don’t want to comment on whether Acer is a good brand or not. You decide that yourself. I just want to help you fix it, but you need a little luck and a prayer :p
Here is how to fix the Acer Aspire blank screen:
- Download the latest BIOS update from the Acer website.
- Extract it, make sure that it has a DOS folder inside.
- Get your USB flash drive and make it bootable.
- Copy the BIOS update from the DOS folder to the flash drive.
- Plug in your USB to the laptop.
- Plug in your power source (laptop in OFF mode).
- Press Fn+Esc then hold the Power button then release the power button.
- After 5-7 seconds the power button will blink red.
- Release Fn+Esc.
- After that don’t touch anything, it will take approximately 20 minutes.
- If successful it will restart automatically.
- And your laptop will come back.
If you are not successful, repeat these steps 2-3 times. If you still have no luck, send your laptop to the Acer service center.
Good luck. Cheers…