Originally Posted by Mike.Rigsby

Unfortunately, no.
With some more research I found out that the specific revision of motherboard used in the Acer desktop has a fatal manufacturer's defect. Basically it will run fine, unless you try and upgrade the BIOS, in which case it then 'bricks' the entire system because the onboard BIOS flashing utility is defective.
The only fix is to return the motherboard to the manufacturer and have them pull the cmos chip and re-flash it or replace it with a new one.

If you haven't done so already and if your's is not the same motherboard as I mentioned above, then the first thing you should try is to wipe your BIOS settings by unplugging it from AC power, then pull the motherboard battery, and let it sit about 15-20 minutes. Then put the battery back in and plug it back in and see if it boots up. If that doesn't work then try the rest of the steps I mentioned trying.

Originally Posted by tttllc

Looks like I have the same exact problem with a Acer T180 today. I was at my friends shop noticed his bios was way out of date in fact it was the original bios dated 2006. I proceeded to download the latest bios from the Acer-support website. I ran the bios flash utility and first backed up the current bios then proceeded to update. The boot bios updated fine while updating the main bios, it returned a message that it was write protected or unable to continue. I then rebooted the computer and all seemed fine it first posted a message updating the DMI and stated it was successful then continued on the next line with Verifying DMI . . after two periods it just hangs.

As this is the computer for my friends shop I need to get it up and running asap as I feel responsible and this will put his business to a standstill. If there's no fix besides returning it to the Acer factory what do you think about this booting up on bios via usb http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-boot-usb-stick.htm then try to restore the original bios.

What did you end up doing ? Did you ship the MOBO back to Acer? How much for charged ? Shipping?

THanks,

Will

Originally Posted by Mike.Rigsby

It's certainly worth a shot because at this point you can't do any harm in trying.
I ended up giving up and scrapping the system for parts and building a new one so the USB stick option is pretty much your only option outside of contacting them and getting a repair quote.
Since I didn't bother with the option of sending it back I have no idea what it will cost. It shouldn't cost that much because it would only take them like 5 minutes to fix.