[plug] Acer 5020.?

[Chris Cornish]

If you cant locate the jumper you can remove the battery (with the
machine unplugged) and use a paper clip or similer to short the battery
terminls for a few minutes please make sure you unplug it first


Kind Regards
Chris Cornish
Cornish Business Solutions 
 

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From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au
[mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Mark O'Shea
Sent: Monday, 9 August 2004 11:43 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Acer 5020.?

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:17, James Elliott wrote:
> I apologise if this is off topic but it is so that I can use this
computer
> for on topic purposes, and this is a very clever group with diverse
> experience.
> 
> I put a new HDD into my Acer 5020 desktop tower and need to get into
Setup
> (BIOS) but a previous owner or the factory has password protected the
CMOS.
> Taking the battery out does not get rid of the password.  Acer will
tell me
> how to do it for $60, but I was hoping someone here might know.
> 
How long did you take the battery out for?  You might need at least 15
mins, or in some cases 24 hours to reset the bios.  There are also some
little programs that will try to find the password for you.  CmosPwd is
one (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download239.html) that works on linux and
dos but google will probably find a lot more.

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Mark O'Shea

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