B STEVENS wrote:
> Thanks, Paul, the search brought up this interesting snippet...
>
> According to other users, there is a bug.
>
> The BIOS password "works" if the laptop is booted from cold but is
> somehow corrupted when brought out of hibernate.
>
> One user proved this by deliberately letting his laptop hibernate to
> recreate the problem but he could remove the battery from his laptop
> to reset it. I don't have that option as the battery is soldered in.
>
> Shazbat.
>
> Regards
>
> Bryan
>
> Try googling: acer aspire 7720g backdoor password
>
> It may turn up some good stuff :)
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
Check that it hasn't chopped off the end of the password. I have a
couple of machine that I can't use bios passwords long then 6 character
or it chops off the start so richardIII becomes ardIII :-) handy :-)
Brian
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