Sunday, July 20, 2014

HowTo reset the Acer Aspire one BIOS Password

HowTo reset the Acer Aspire one BIOS Password

Use the utility unetbootin-windows-299.exe (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-windows-latest.exe) to make a FreeDOS bootable USB pendrive, I used a FAT32 Formatted 2gb Sandisk Cruzer
see http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/flashing-bios.html for more info

Copy the KILLCMOS.COM (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2969.html) file to the root of the pendrive – IT IS NOT A VIRUS EVEN IF YOUR SCANNER SAYS IT IS.

plug in the pendrive

power on the acer

press f12 and choose to boot from the USB pendrive, choose option 5

type c:

type KILLCMOS – there will be a beep and the machine will reboot

press f2 to enter the BIOS

killcmos just clears stored settings, basically it resets the bios to be clear

Tested on AOA-110


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