Keyboard problem when entering password in Settings

[Kyall]

Hey again
i would like to thank those who helped me with my hard drive. I found the problem and it was the format settings.
Yet now i have a new problem to deal with   
i was given a laptop by my dads work, yet it REALLY needs a format.
yet this laptop it a hunk of $#!% and it has a broken cd drive.
So i installed a bootable version of windows onto my flashdisk to install it to my flashdisk. The only problem is that i need to choose my laptop to boot from my flashdisk.
YET!!! i need a password to get into setup.
I got the password tho 
BUT!!!
 
the only button on the keyboard that would work is enter
PLEASE help me! i need the laptop in 48 hours time.
Thanks in advanced
Kyall

[Dias de verano]

If its keyboard is broken, that laptop ain't gonna be much use to you.

Sounds like you have 48 hours to buy a new keyboard for that laptop. have you plugged in an ordinary keyboard? many laptops have keyboard and mouse sockets.

[macdad-]

if it doesnt have the PS/2 sockets for keyboards look for a USB port on the laptop then plug up a USB Keyboard to it.

[Dias de verano]

except the bios may not see a USB keyboard

[macdad-]

well depeding upon the year it was manufactured, some comp's bios have support for USB Keyboards and Mice just as for PS/2 Keyboards and Mice.

[Dias de verano]

well depeding upon the year it was manufactured, some comp's bios have support for USB Keyboards and Mice just as for PS/2 Keyboards and Mice.

yes, but often you need to get into the BIOS to enable legacy USB support, if it is not enabled, and you need a PS/2 keyboard to do that.

[macdad-]

yea i guess ur right....
Kyall does it have PS/2 ports on it or not?

[Dias de verano]

It's a kind of annoying catch-22 thing isn't it? I have an el-cheapo PS/2 keyboard in the cupboard for this very reason (found out the hard way)

[patio]

It's a kind of annoying catch-22 thing isn't it? I have an el-cheapo PS/2 keyboard in the cupboard for this very reason (found out the hard way)

Everyone should have one...

[llmeyer1000]

We really need more information Kyall. It's hard to read your mind, but ...

I am guessing that you did not mean that the keyboard was bad, but rather that the BIOS would only recognise that one choice.

Regardless, you may be able to use a program such as killcmos to kill the bios password. I'm sure a Google search will turn up several of that type of program that you can download for free.

Here is one:

KILLCMOS 1.0 As long as you are able to boot from the floppy KILLCMOS will remove the BIOS password if you don't remember it.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/KILLCMOS.shtml

Oops!   That might not work if you can't boot the system.

i was given a laptop by my dads work, yet it REALLY needs a format.

If that means you can't get to windows at all, then the only other way is to remove the cmos battery or access the jumper(s) to kill the cmos. Both of those options may be difficult since this is a laptop.

[macdad-]

he doesnt even have his OS installed so how is he going to get that prog?!?!

[llmeyer1000]

he doesnt even have his OS installed so how is he going to get that prog?!?!

He could use the computer he's using to access this site and download it. Then copy it to the USB drive.

His comment:

i was given a laptop by my dads work, yet it REALLY needs a format.

May mean that his op won't boot, or that it is simply running poorly and ...

REALLY needs a format.

Like I said before, we really need more information!

[macdad-]

true but there is no way when he plugs in his flashdrive that he'll be able to copy it to the harddrive much less run it since the keyboard is toast.

[WillyW]

... then the only other way is to remove the cmos battery...

... since this is a laptop.

I doubt that.

Reference:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46128.msg289067.html#msg289067

[llmeyer1000]

Contact Acer and get your wallet out...
Laptop BIOS passwords cannot be reset with the method listed above...
This is by design.
Acer will probably request proof of purchase

Willy,

Patio may be right. I don't know. Never tried it nor have I seen it documented anywhere else that removing battery in laptop will not work, nor that it would ruin the laptop!

The guy at this site says to:
"Use extreme caution when removing the keyboard on any laptop!"
Exercise Caution - YES! - He didn't say it was impossible.

http://murfsgarage.cybertechhelp.com/cmos.htm

macdad

true but there is no way when he plugs in his flashdrive that he'll be able to copy it to the harddrive much less run it since the keyboard is toast.

I am still not convinced that the keyboard is toast. If we take the Subject line of Kyall's post and the post itself at face value,
"Keyboard problem when entering password in Settings "
the problem occurs only when he is trying to enter values into the bios.

He states:

yet this laptop it a hunk of $#!% and it has a broken cd drive.

"Broken cd drive" - no mention of broken keyboard. I really doubt if he would be trying to save this laptop if both the cd drive and keyboard is toast.

Since we are all trying to read between the lines, I guess that we will just continue to argue back and forth until we get an update from Kyall

We really need more information Kyall. It's hard to read your mind, but ...