hard drive password spontaneously turning on...

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I have an Acer Travelmate C100, which is a complete piece of POS, but
this POS is my computer and I need to be able to get into it.

I have never set a password for the harddrive in the 2 years I've owned
it.

It was in standby mode, I turned it on and then picked it up while it
was waking up, but I don't know if I hit something or what, it started
asking for a password to access the hard drive.

The problem is there is no password. I've tried everything I can think
of (and a few swear words just for fun). I even put the card with the
smart chip in thinking that would help. Nada. Tried removing the
battery, tried resetting the defaults.

I wrote (and left a message with Acer) and expect an answer between now
and never.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to get rid of this password or
better yet, what's the backdoor password??

Regards,
Millady

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

I have a similar issue at the moment with a acer travelmate 650 which
I'm still trying to resolve.

You may find some help at the following urls

http://www.techsupportforum.com/

http://www.geek.com/

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cacheKUIILloU7YJ:www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee2000918002375.htm+acer+travelmate+650+bios+backdoor+passwords&hl=en

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cacheKUIILloU7YJ:www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee2000918002375.htm+bios+reset+on+acer+travelmate+650&hl=en

If you have any luck with it could you drop me an email with a "how
to" in it.

Good luck