Acer Aspire T180 BIOS Update fail

I was fixing a friend Acer updating everything was going fine until I udated the bios (R01-C0) The BIOS was write protected, rebooted and now its stuck on Verifying DMI Pool Data. :cry I feel so bad. Thank you for looking BIOS V 6.00 PG SMBIOS 2.3 BIOSID R01-C0

 

The OS is Windows XP

 

It doesn't look good. It seems like people who try to flash the BIOS have the same problem.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topi...te-on-acer-aspire-t180/?ModPagespeed=noscript
and
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/th...n-t-boot-up-past-quot-verifying-DMI-data-pool
you may have to buy a chip.

 

Thats what I was afraid of. Thank you so much and Good Morning. This will teach me to do more research first. First time I've ever run into a write protected BIOS. I saw somewhere about making a boot usb to try and flash the chip. I'm gonna try and find it again. My friend is helping me outta tough jam, just hope we can get out of this one...lolz. Any help or feedback is forever Gratefully appreciated (~)