Can you boot an Acer Aspire One from an SD card when no BIOS is available?

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Published on 2011-02-01T15:17:40Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 5:33 UTC
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Is it possible to boot the Acer Aspire One PC from an SD card?

I have bricked an Aspire One, but it does not even start the BIOS. Aspire One have this issue and a BIOS update usually work and it helped me once in the past, but this time it's all over, and the BIOS update fails. It still reads the SD card with the magic Ctrl + Esc shortcut used to launch the BIOS update. Can I trick the computer into booting somehow using this shortcut?

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