Acer Aspire 5470G Bricked

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Hi guys im hoping i can get some assistance in getting this laptop back up and running..

It all started with heat issues so i cleaned it up and replaced the thermal paste, still generating too much heat and a little research suggests the bios update could help it.

So i proceeded to download and flash acer aspire 5740G bios version 1.28, using the dreaded winphlash ( i know stupid mistake, whats worse its not the first time ive made it).

after it flashed and rebooted "black screen" and spent the better half of 8 hours researching and trying to fix.

Acer Aspire 5740G
Intel i5 430m
radeon 5470
4gb RAM
500GB HDD
Windows 7 64bit
SNID: 00111404720

Tried:

BIOS_Acer_1.10_A_A
BIOS_Acer_1.16_A_A
BIOS_Acer_1.22_A_A
BIOS_Acer_1.28_A_A

Used mulltiple different version of Phlash
Used different version of Crisis disk
Used an 8GB pen drive, 450MB pen drive and a 64MB SDcard.. oh and burning to CD + DVD

Tried under windows XP x86, Win7 x64

Tried FN+ESC / FN+B / WINKEY+ B / FN+F / CTRL+ESC
Tried With battery in and without
Tried using .WPH + .ROM and tried renaming and copying to root

Couldnt figure the Phoenix tool to tell me what to name it properly

The Bios was originally on 1.09 (can't seem to locate that anywhere)


Wish i could give more information but i dont have a clue what MOBO it is and not even 100% sure it phoenix having said that i also tried Insyde.

NONE of the above have even hinted at the Pen drive light flashing and the cdrom spins for 5 seconds. I dont think its the bios or phlash version i going to hazard a guess its not recognizing the USB either because the bios name is incorrect or its not applying it as a boot device.

Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated

Thanks




Alan

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