I'm sick and tired of Acer and Windows 8.1!

Acer Aspire V5-571, win 8

What started as a simple upgrade to 8.1 has become a nightmare of time wasted and frustrating. Acer support is useless, but perhaps the community can help. Or maybe Costco will read th of uselessness enclose and bring her back and stop selling Acer altogether. I used to be a big fan, but this experience has me mark completely off.

I've updated FOUR other brands with no problems. I have the best part of spen t th two days with this Acer and nothing I tried works.

After that I decided to go on the NOSE to see if UEFI was part of th eproblem, I changed the BIOS to the strives and now it does not start in the Menu of the BIOS (F2). NOTHING on the Acer website tells you how to solve this problem. Anyone heard of a BIOS that can not load without an operating system. The error is 'The operating system not found' and F2 does not work.

Ideas anyone? Please not regurgitate "press F2 on the POST. It does not work - see above.

its okay...

BTW, try again the 2.17 sir...

Unzip the exe file it y...

After that...

Locate the update.bat and then run...

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