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First post, by drosse1meyer

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Hello all

Working on another project and want to update the BIOS. Unfortunately most of this stuff from Acer isn't archived. I've found an old German support site here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001213021700/ht … chInfo/bios.htm.

From what I can tell, I need the BIOS "R01-E1" which is 'v35_1e1.bin' along with flash tool v2.15: 'af215.exe' None of the various file links are archived, unsurprisingly. The site tree works but again, none of the files are retrievable.

After more searching around I finally found this site which has the binary, along with a ton of others (http://bierbude.spdns.org:2302). However I still can't locate the correct flash exe.

I tried using UNIFLASH but it complained about bootblock when I ran it, so i didnt proceed as I have no way of recovering if it fails.

Basically, I'm hoping that someone has/ can point me to 'af215.exe' or can suggest another method of flashing this little dude?

Thanks!

P1: Packard Bell - 233 MMX, Voodoo1, 64 MB, ALS100+
P2-V2: Dell Dimension - 400 Mhz, Voodoo2, 256 MB
P!!! Custom: 1 Ghz, GeForce2 Pro/64MB, 384 MB

Reply 1 of 5, by Horun

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Cannot find any Acer Flasher version 2.15. Is it a Pheonix BIOS ?
Curious: Is this your board: http://web.archive.org/web/20030718132546/htt … ticles/1423.htm ?

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Reply 2 of 5, by drosse1meyer

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Horun wrote on 2021-08-28, 15:38:

Cannot find any Acer Flasher version 2.15. Is it a Pheonix BIOS ?
Curious: Is this your board: http://web.archive.org/web/20030718132546/htt … ticles/1423.htm ?

Hi there

Yes that's the board. It doesn't appear to be a standard kind of bios (Phoenix, etc.).

I figured it out though. win3x.org (great resource) has many of these boards listed along with the BIOS images. Not sure how I missed this before.

Anyway I was clicking around and eventually found that some of the BIOSes were uploaded as .zip which contained aflash.exe. Then I just downloaded a few of these until I found one which contained a version which was close enough.

v2.14 did the trick for me.

I'll attach it here for posterity along with a readme. Not sure how I can upload it to vogondrivers.com?

P1: Packard Bell - 233 MMX, Voodoo1, 64 MB, ALS100+
P2-V2: Dell Dimension - 400 Mhz, Voodoo2, 256 MB
P!!! Custom: 1 Ghz, GeForce2 Pro/64MB, 384 MB

Reply 3 of 5, by Horun

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Great ! Thanks.

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 5 of 5, by drosse1meyer

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-08-28, 23:20:

See its fixed now, but found this quickly by searching for af215 & acer

https://www.hwdrivers.com/ftp/fd_-slash-lapto … 15-dot-zip.html

Thanks. I think i actually saw that result but ignored it because I was being stupid and believed it was a false hit 🤣

P1: Packard Bell - 233 MMX, Voodoo1, 64 MB, ALS100+
P2-V2: Dell Dimension - 400 Mhz, Voodoo2, 256 MB
P!!! Custom: 1 Ghz, GeForce2 Pro/64MB, 384 MB

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