Bios settings greyed out

drumsmasher17

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Jul 5, 2011
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Hello,
I have an acer aspire 5734z netbook. when i go into the bios settings, lots of the options are greyed out, i've tried 3 solutions i have heard about. firstly i have tried pressing Ctrl+F1 on all the screens of the bios (with no luck), secondly tried setting both the user and system passoword to be blank (no use either) and finally removed all the jump leads to the motherboard and left them for 5 minutes. being a laptop, it doesnt have the little yellow button you can just press to reset the bios/cmos or whatever :p help would be much appreciated