I recently got an Acer Aspire E11 (E3-112m) and in order to install another OS I had to set a Supervisor password, so I used a well known password to me, the problem is that such password contains a special character ! which the password prompt won't let me input, though it let me when I had to set the password (buggy prompt I believe). Now everytime I need to change something in the BIOS I have to fail 3 times and go to bios-pw.org to generate a master key.
I have already tried several different methods to clear it:
- Removing the CMOS battery
- Looking for the reset jumper (which doesn't even exist).
I also noticed there were 2 weird buttons on the front and back sides of the motherboard, I don't know what they are for but I also pressed them (while both the CMOS and the regular battery were disconnected). All of this without luck, the password just won't reset (though the RTC did).
Are there other ways to reset the Supervisor/Admin password on this model?
Best Answer
When you enter the password generated by bios-pw.org and presss enter instantly keep pressing del or f2 to enter bios screen and then disable boot password and exit and save.