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BIOS battery- Travelmate 5520

post #1 of 4
8/26/08 at 1:01am
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Does anyone know where the BIOS battery is located at on the Acer TravelMate 5520 laptop? I locked myself out of my computer and heard that removing the BIOS battery for an hour and then putting it back in will reset the BIOS password.
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post #2 of 4
8/26/08 at 3:04am
You meant the CMOS battery. This involves taking your laptop apart to get to it. But removing and replacing the battery does not always garantee a reset of a bios password. Your best bet is sending the laptop back to the reseller for the reset

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post #3 of 4
8/26/08 at 12:03pm
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Alright. Thanks.
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post #4 of 4
8/27/08 at 11:54am
There are also some generic bios unlockers that work. Do a general search, then specifically your laptop. Also, I've seen other scenarios referencing Acer laptops that agree that removing the cmos battery will relieve the bios of all presets and go back to default. The battery is usually under the keyboard, and takes a bit of disassembly to get to.

On 2nd glance, the battery on many of these is located under the right palmrest, and requires pulling all the screws from the bottom to separate the upper and lower case.

hth.
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