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I destroyed an video card this way, because of an blocking not reacting flasher window, so I decided to not flash in windows anymore. You are the expert, if you say it works well, then it will works well

You shouldn't flash a bios oder Vbios in windows. just download rufus, choose ms-dos start, format and copy dos bios files on it --- ready. 64bit Windows flashing is pretty dangerous in imho.

Great Work svl7 How did you edit the original bios files ? With an Hex Editor or an disassembler or with a tool ? Could you recommend any guides for learning to edit bios files ? thanks in advance

I had four Acers in the past. They was low-priced compared to the hardware, what was inside. Great Performance, well working and nice looking. The main problem: It was ultra difficult to maintain or exchange anything. For example: After a half year, you need to clean the fan cool blocks, but they are not easily reachable, so you must remove nearly everything including the mainboard to get full access to the cooling system. In Clevo Notebooks, you get instantly access to nearly everything with ease, including the fans. You can exchange everything with ease and clean everything with ease. It tooks not a minute to exchange for example the cpu in a clevo notebook. In Acer it is a painful act with dozen of screws everywhere. So I switched from acer to clevo.

hehe thanks prema. Will PM you as soon as I can. btw. I looked in the standard clevo EC Flasher binary and found some interesting strings: Flash Memory Download Utility for 2'nd EC Revision : 1.0 2012/10/03 /r -> fetch EC ROM code. /u -> plugged USBOFF tool. as USBOFF.exe /cx -> wait x(0~9) second(s) to do Coldboot. /hx -> wait x(0~9) second(s) to do sHutdown. /s -> update Special ROM type, as MXIC /i -> don't check EC ID code. /ad -> Autoload Disable /an -> Autoload oN /af -> Autoload oFF /p -> stay in DOS My disassembler Skills aren't very good, so I don't find the correct parameter or programm path to activate this subroutine from elash11.exe, but it sounds good: Flash Memory Download Utility for 2'nd EC <<< for SECOND EC!! maybe its just a flag or something like that, to pass by the command line. Greetings

Hey Prema, thanks for the answer and the information! I don't find any documentation about parameters or configs of the clevo tool ELASH11.EXE, so I don't know, which parameter to pass with it, to flash the second ec. As far as I know, it should be maybe possible with afudos and the /E Flag, but I have no clue how to tell afudos to fill the second ec. It's always complicated, when things are not mainline and very bad documented. do you have an idea, how to flash a second ec ? Which tool and parameter whould be necessary ? So I can read a little documentation about it

Hey Prema, I have a difficult problem with my P170SM. It's not a bios from you, because you didn't provide P170SM bios yet. But maybe you have a deeper understand of the material. I updated both ec (from 1.00.D2) and bios to 1.03.01 But after AC disconnect, it reverts back to 1.00.D2 --- I tried several EC Firmware, it always works, and it displays in bios the new ec version. But after I disconnect AC, it downgrades full automatically back to 1.00.D2. I have no clue how is this possible. Any idea ? Ive never had such a problem in the past and have no clue, how to solve this problem. What can I do, that the new version remains, after ac loss ? my ec flash parameter are: ELASH11.EXE eP17SM06.bin /ad /h3 should I change something ? I just use ecflash.bat thanks in advance for any help!