Acer Aspire V7-582, Service Manual

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System Utilities 2-21
Figure 2-28. Getting backdoor supervisor password
13. On the system with the locked supervisor password, enter the backdoor password in
the window with the backdoor key. Refer to Figure 2-24.
14. Press Enter
after entering the backdoor password to enter
BIOS Setup Menu
.
15. Under
Security
, select
Set Supervisor Password
and input the backdoor
password again (example here is 61789574) to clear the
Supervisor
password.
Figure 2-29. Enter backdoor Password in BIOS
16. Ensure the
Set Supervisor Password
option is set to
Clear.
NOTE: NOTE :
If BIOS Security menu item
Password on Boot
is set to
Enabled
, the
Supervisor Password can only be cleared by the Crisis Disk Recovery
procedure. (The default parameter of
Password on Boot
is set to
Disabled
.)