Acer 5742G, 5742ZG manual Removing Bios Passwords, Cleaning Bios Passwords

Removing BIOS Passwords:

To clear the User or Supervisor passwords, open the DIMM door and use a metal instrument to short the RTC_RST point.

Cleaning BIOS Passwords

To clean the User or Supervisor passwords, perform the following steps:

1.From a DOS prompt, execute clnpwd.exe

2.Press 1 or 2 to clean the desired password shown on the screen.

The onscreen message determines whether the function is successful or not.

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