Updating BIOS on Acer laptop?

If your computer somehow stops working for some reason in the middle of the process, you could damage it in a way that could keep it from being restored. But since they have instructed you to do it, and you are under warranty, I believe you are safe. Just don’t flash your BIOS while you’re on battery power, or let your kitty turn your computer off while it’s updating and you will be fine.

It is mostly legal stuff to cover their ass if something goes wrong. Do you have a back-up of all your important stuff?

If it screws up, then its their fault, they were the ones who told you to do it. I had an Acer laptop once, never buying anything Acer related again. lol

So, the translation of that is this: Your BIOS is a small chunk of software that’s actually embedded in your motherboard (the main bit of circuitry that everything else attaches to) that keeps everything working with each other well and gets everything running before your OS kicks in. If you put the wrong piece of software on there, your motherboard won’t have the instructions to load properly, and fixing it is impossible without tearing your laptop apart.

That being said, you have been instructed. If it messes up, it their fault for telling you to do it, and it’s under warranty, so they then have to replace it. Just make sure you back up all your stuff, as @pjanaway said.