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Posted by BillW50 on April 11, 2008, 8:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options Jerry typed on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:25:23 -0400:
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:37:25 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
>>
>>>
>>>> I won a laptop on Ebay and I want to reinstall the OS.
>>>> Unfortunately the Bios is password protected and i am not having
>>>> any luck getting responses from the previous owner. This unit has
>>>> the Phoenix TrustedCore version 1.51 bios. Most likely Acer may
>>>> have done its own version of this. I tried the 000000 password
>>>> reset and that did not work per instruction from Acer tech
>>>> support. Now they want me to send the unit in and charge me
>>>> $100.00. I am trying to avoid that. Any help would be greatly
>>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> In order to induce the vendor to respond, initiate eBay's
>>> return policy, because the goods are not fit for use as offered.
>>
>> Here is the link to the auction.
>>
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250230720285&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=015
>>
>> He seems to be a nice guy based on the fact he left me positive
>> feedback as soon as i paid for the item. He states in the auction he
>> is selling it "As is as a parts or repair unit". That said I wish he
>> would have told me the Bios and the recovery process is password
>> protected and gave them to me after I paid for the item. I really
>> can't complain too much though based on what i paid for it although I
>> would be willing to fix it if i could only get to the Bios.
>
> I'm not defending the seller but in all honesty he probably doesn't
> have a clue as to what the bios password is.
I'm thinking that the seller is really nice because it is a stolen
laptop. And they are happy to get any money for a password protected
stolen laptop. :-(
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Bill
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