Removing Bios Passwords - Acer ASPIRE 4252 Service Manual

Removing BIOS Passwords:

If you key in the wrong Supervisor Password three times, System Disabled displays on the screen as below.
To reset the BIOS password, run BIOS_PW.EXE on a second machine as follows:
1. At a command prompt, type bios_pw 14452 0.
2. Select one string from the list.
3. Reboot the system and type the selected string (in this example qjjg9vy or 07yqmjd etc.) for the
BIOS user password.
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