BIOS Update Workaround
Several manufacturers have provided 64-bit BIOS flash utilities, but there are still some holdouts. Acer, for one, can't seem to manage to create one for their Ferrari, even though there are a lot of Acer Ferrari owners out there running 64-bit Windows - either XP x64 or Vista 64-bit. Not a huge problem if you have a USB floppy drive you can boot to, but the Acer BIOS doesn't support booting to a USB Flash drive. Well, fellow MVP and Ferrari owner Barb Bowman has come up with a nice workaround, using the built in WinPE boot process of Windows Vista. All you need is a 32-bit Vista DVD, a USB flash drive, and the BIOS files from your OEM. Nice job, Barb.
Charlie.