Looks like it has been removed.

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/

Perhaps someone will post a copy for you.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but Im also having the same problem with the aspire 1690, also up to date going by acer, anyone else have any clues?

BIOS updates:

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_169...


Or if it's not that, you might try another IDE cable (assuming it's an IDE drive).

A laptop won't have an ide cable...

The older ones did. I assumed they had a short length of cable. Are they snap lock then?

Some had cables, some had a plug directly mounted on the circuit board that the drive slid into. As always, everyone is right.

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... Please, can anyone post a link where download the bios file....

Particularly where Acer's are concerned, always use the DOS method of BIOS updating. Windows is far from an ideal environment for such operations and I've seen quite a few perfectly good notebooks bricked.
There are retrieval tools for newer notebooks but success is not guaranteed and companies such as Acer seem hell bent on preventing you from successfully retrieving dead machines.