Acer Aspire One ZG5 locked BIOS - Not fixed

[Toothless]

So I don't remember putting a password on the BIOS of my little Acer as mentioned in the title, so I'm locked out and can't really do anything. The only things I can think of doing is taking it apart and clearing the CMOS or flashing a new BIOS (already did my research for a BIOS that unlocks power options) with WinFlash.

Any other ways?


EDIT: I had to Alt+F10 and I got past the BIOS lock. Problem solved.

 

[Toothless]

I'm bumping this thread since the BIOS bypass is simply not going to work if I'm to keep this netbook. Sooooo it's back to the drawing board and I neeeed a way to unlock the BIOS.

And no I've never flashed a BIOS besides updating them and that was auto-flashing stuff from ASUS and Gigabyte.

 

[Caring1]

Can you boot into the BIOS at all?
Which version of the Motherboard do you have, with a SO-DIMM slot or with Ram chips soldered on the board?

 

[Misaki]

Remove CMOS battery for 1 minute:

 

[jboydgolfer]

im not sure if its relavant or not with newer Laptops...but i had a Dell latitude that this customer installed some kind of Third party locking software on, and He couldnt remember his password, so i Ended up having to "jump" the Eeprom chip?(removing the Cmos battery didnt work for Me) or some kind of chip that stored the bios' memory. I used a pair of needlnose pliars , and it worked great. one try, and i was in and it looks lie Youve already disassembled the laptop.

 

[Toothless]

Sooo take it apart? Gotcha. Let me get on that after my morning breakfast and anti-cranky juice. (coffee)

 

[Toothless]

Okay so the BIOS battery thingy was next to the HDD, on the other side of the keyboard, under the motherboard, against the bottom that you can't take off. You literally have to take the whole thing apart to reach that.

Anyone have a 1GB stick of DDR2 laptop mem?


UPDATE: I'm happy to report that the password is no more! Now to make it where the network card won't disappear all the time.