Just bought a s/hand travelmate 2423 trouble is there is a password on the bios I cannot change the boot order so it will boot from disk Help please

1) You can set your boot options in your bios, watch as you laptop boots, you should see something like "Hit F2 to enter setup". Hit F2, select boot options then choose to boot from CD, HDD or external drive. Take care because you don't want to mess up your Bios. So read the screen carefully before changing anything. When you're happy, select save and exit then reboot, you should then boot from the device of choice in the order of choice.

2) Windows boot options, windows has several options for booting from, including safe mode. To do this, hit F8 several times while the laptop is booting, you should come to a screen with the several options on offer.

press either delete or f2 during the boot process to enter the BIOS you can chage your password from there (be careful)
hope this helps

Hi,

Start the computer and hit the F2 key until you get into the BIOS. When in the BIOS you can see in the Main/general page whether the hard drive is seen by the system. You will see HDD (hard drive) CD-ROM which is the optical disk drive.
If you see the hard drive the look for boot options in the tabs. When you get to boot options set the HDD as the first boot device, save the settings and exit the BIOS.

Hopefully the laptop will restart and boot from the hard drive, thus into Windows.

If the hard drive is not seen in the BIOS then the hard drive has failed and needs replacing.
If you have a BIOS password then start the computer hit F12 repeatedly until you see the boot option menu and choose the HDD.

Regards.

You need to be the administrator or have the same powers as the admin.. On start up depress F2, F8 or F11. One of those I forget witch one off hand gets you to the menu to change the boot from disk. It is probably set to HDD C 1st, Then D, then CD. click on D to put is at the top of the list.

With most of the Acer's you can get by this problem by removing the cmos / bios battery for a few minutes with the battery and power adapter unplugged.

This will clear the password.

Or you could just ask your son about the password, no?

It's not all that easy to break a password in Vista. If you have an installation disk, do try a dirty install. Click here if you need help with installation.
Please do let us know the result. Thanx.

did you put boot to cd drive in the first boot order in bios?

try this,

members have reported that they were able to remove their Acer BIOS passwords by simply opening their notebooks and removing the CMOS batteries for 30 minutes.
Once your BIOS password is removed, you will need to press the <F2> key during POST (Power On Self Test) to enter the Acer BIOS setup.

if that don't work, acer support charges 100.00 to reset the password, What a rip-off.

U sure it's u're laptop !?!?!!!?! hmmm

If the password is on the bios, than open the case, find the bios reset pin and short it (or remove the bios batery for 5 sec. ), if the password is on the disk drive(implemented throw bios), than is nothing u can do !!!! (exept go to the laptops manufacurer and pay(a lot) him to remove the password !)

can't boot from CD There will be an option in the BIOS menu called "BIOS setup" or similar. ..... yes, hit f10. Save and reboot. Still goes to the screen that says :windows

Click on the link above and follow instructions,Should get ya back on line/ Please dont for get to Vote, Thank You.