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| Thread ID: 84801 | 2007-11-19 07:29:00 | Vista & No Mouse | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 612974 | 2007-11-20 01:28:00 | Also found these instructions - have no idea if they work or not - but nothing to lose. Yep that gets you there ok but then it wants a password. :) CyaBro, noop, no disks made. She just told me she had to be shown how to open the lid. :lol: :lol: :lol: What a Micky Mouse system though. There were a crowd of computer techs around here that used to password the BIOS. Real helpful, but I guess it ensured they got to do any alterations. :( |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 612975 | 2007-11-20 01:32:00 | Did they not burn recovery disks originally as it constantly tells you to do? | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 612976 | 2007-11-20 01:33:00 | Sorry mate bit slow in submitting that. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 612977 | 2007-11-20 01:37:00 | Have you tried entering the 6 zeros into the eRecovery program itself (rather then to get into the recovery partition) and creating recovery disks? | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 612978 | 2007-11-20 02:35:00 | Hmmmmm trickey little bugger eh! OK - Found This here (www.cgsecurity.org) - don't know if it will work - Have no Idea as to what it will do to the BIOS - I did download it and read the "readme" tells you want to do. Use it at your your own risk I guess - may not even help ? You really may need to get some recovery CD/DVD's from acer. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 612979 | 2007-11-20 02:38:00 | Um isn't it the recovery thing that needs a pw, not the BIOS?? They're two totally different things. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 612980 | 2007-11-20 02:45:00 | I was reading that the password is actually held in the BIOS chip - which all sounds strange - if it was a seperate chip then that would make more sence. Hence that why I put May not be of any use or work. No doubt Acer has a "tool" to remove any passwords - but then it would cost $$$. One place said Acer can fix that and remove the passwords, but the laptop needs to be sent to Acer and cost $100.00 USA. Another site I saw said to remove the chip from the board and replace it - not really a good Idea :groan:. New recovery or the original recovery CD /DDVD's would be the best answer - as long as the damn things didn't ask for the password when running them, which it may do if the password is coded into a chipset when entering and not the OS. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 612981 | 2007-11-20 02:45:00 | Um isn't it the recovery thing that needs a pw, not the BIOS?? They're two totally different things. Yep, it’s the recovery console that requires the password not the BIOS. The BIOS is fine, everything seems in order there. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 612982 | 2007-11-20 02:47:00 | Have you tried entering the 6 zeros into the eRecovery program itself (rather then to get into the recovery partition) and creating recovery disks? Ahhhh, not sure what you mean there . How would I go about that? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 612983 | 2007-11-20 02:59:00 | Ah ha, think I found an answer. From Here (forum.notebookreview.com) IF you can get on that hdd somehow. The password is stored in a file on the hidden partition. The best way to get at this is to use something like "The Ultimate Boot CD" that will run a complete system from a cd. Once it is booted, you can navigate to the file %drive letter%\TOOLS\AIMDRS.DAT use any text editor or notepad to view this file and find the password. THats all i was able to find out. As i said, i did not need to try this solution myself. Some version of a live Linux CD might work? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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