Acer Comprehensive Guide on Removing BIOS Passwords for AS8950G

Removing BIOS Passwords

If wrong supervisor password is entered three times, the message System will halt! is displayed on screen.

Figure 2-19. Supervisor Password Error

If user is unable to obtain correct password then it must be removed. There are two methods to do this.

Method 1:

If BIOS menu item Power on Password is set to Enabled, then Crisis Recovery disc must be used.

Method 2:

If BIOS menu item Power on Password is set to Disabled.

1. Boot to DOS and execute ClearSuPw.exe. (Figure 2-20)

Figure 2-20. Clear Supervisor Password Utility

2.When message Clear the SU Pws completely is displayed, supervisor password has been removed.

2-20 System Utilities