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Question posted by kacare on September 29th, 2014

How To Flash Bios On Acer Aspire One D150 To Remove Bios Password

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Answer #1: Posted by Prometheus1618 on September 29th, 2014 9:55 AM

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This is NOT something to undertake lightheartedly. Acer laptops appear to have a poor record for surviving a bios upgrade.

However if you realy want to do this

Here is a link

http://www.motherboardpoint.com/threads/acer-bios-update-fails.36681/

Look for the entry by LinuxGuru which is the 14th entry as of the date of this post.

Hope this helps

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