Help With Acer 5560 Model Number 20101373366 Bios Issue And Boot Menu Issue.

[SSEN29]

Hi have been working on my laptop its an Acer 5560 Model number 20101373366 for some reason I am locked out of my bios and also boot menu does not show up such as the f12 key and stuff I also have removed the cmos battery several times can anyone help me out maybe there is a software for this ?

 

[Uncle Mac]

I had the same problem, boot wait was disabled, it booted straight into Windows without checking for F2 key. Windows was crashing and couldn't even load safe mode which led to an unusable system.

I succeeded with a rather drastic solution: I powered off the laptop, unplugged it, removed the battery, and REMOVED THE HARD DRIVE. This made it impossible for it to load windows on boot, allowing me to get into BIOS setup with F2!

It is safe to power on a laptop without a hard drive. Just don't install or remove it while on, and/or when battery or line power is connected!

I don't truly know if this is related to your question or my solution, but when I changed the boot order from 'windows boot manager' to 'hdd0', Win7 was able to successfully boot again. Before that it was very flaky at booting, which I was hoping a round of Windows Updates would fix...

 

[TheHarperdragon]

You should be able to get into the BIOS even if there was no hard drive in the computer. Sounds like you messed up the boot sector somehow - did you partitioned the drives? Either that or you may just not be hitting the BIOS option fast enough or using the wrong key.

 

[SSEN29]

Ill try what you guys have told me and yes I been hitting the correct key to get into bios it shows its locked.

okay I have removed the battery and hard drive it still shows only F2 key.

 

[TheHarperdragon]

Found this on Tom's Hardware -
Please do try these troubleshooting steps that may help.
- Start by doing a hard reset, remove the battery and AC adapter then press and hold the power button for 20 seconds then see if it will boot up normally and would not freeze.
- If it does, try loading BIOS by repeatedly pressing on F2 while the laptop is booting up.
- If you were able to load BIOS and it still freezes in it that means it's your CPU that has the problem but if it doesn't press F9 to load the defaults and exit.
- Next to try is to load Safe Mode, again while the laptop is booting up repeatedly press on F8 until it loads Advanced Boot Options, select Safe Mode and press Enter.
- If it will load Safe Mode disable all the startup items and reboot.
- Your last resort would be to run a clean install of Windows.

 

[SSEN29]

okay I got to the bios but there is a password witch I do not know it.

 

[TheHarperdragon]

Can't help you dude - it's your password

 

[TheHarperdragon]

There is only one other option that I know of and you had better be ready -
To reinstall your laptop to the factory settings / "out of the box" settings, please follow these steps. It worked for me, and should work for you.

ALL DATA WILL BE ERASED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IF YOU PROCEED. YOU WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE POWER ADAPTER PLUGGED IN. DO NOT SWITCH OFF OR RESTART YOUR COMPUTER DURING THIS PROCESS.


1) Hold down the power button for 10 (ten) seconds to switch off your machine.

Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost.

2) Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.

3) When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.

4) When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.

5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software; click Next.

6) Select Recover to out-of-box state. Click Next again.

7) Click Next to Start recovery.

 

[Uncle Mac]

Bios pasword - eliminate the Bios battery for 12 hours

 

[Hawkeye]

bios pass-worded but you don't no the password that is proper dodgy :/

 

[TheHarperdragon]

bios pass-worded but you don't no the password that is proper dodgy :/

... does make one pause and wonder ....

Bios password - eliminate the Bios battery for 12 hours

... I've never run into that one but what the heck - why not?

 

[Uncle Mac]

... I've never run into that one but what the heck - why not?

this is the solution for Bios password - i know it

 

[Hawkeye]

@TheMacGyver

 

[Uncle Mac]

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I see one more where someone forgets password I'll Deny and Lock on the spot
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