How to Disable Acer Travelmate 240 BIOS Password?

You will need to turn your travelmate upside down and remove the ***** from the hard drive panel or Ram cover...try both.You will see a small battery(cmos battery). If you can see where it is plugged in and can reach it,unplug it for about 10 seconds and plug back in then put your covers back.That should reset your bios so you dont need a password.You can go back in your bios at a later time and set a new password if you wish :)

The BIOS password is a hefty security measure, and consequently, is difficult and in some cases impossible to disable if you do not already know the password that was set. Dell offers a recovery service if you can prove purchase. Acer does not provide any kind of easy solution, but most use a BIOS developed by Phoenix, and you might (and thats a big might) be able to recover the BIOS (a.k.a. wipe the original, which requires a password, and replace it with a 'fresh' one). If you are interested in this endeavor, I came across a handy tutorial if you want to try it out. http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/326954-case-you-kill-your-phoenix-bios-bios-recovery-methods.html

Refer the below link and you will find the complete information along with the screen shots
http://slanyfree.net/howto.php?file=/Hardware/acer-240-reset-password

My Acer travelmate 240 is not booting it just shows a black screen after POST Please help.

remove the battery for a few days (and all other power source). It should reset the BIOS

see the instruction pins of the hdd if have a jumper deattach

Check on motherbord again you can find cmos cell it is look like round battery cell.
Then pull it for 10 minutes so all bios settings are defaults.
Also you can clear bios with jumper find jumper on motherbord it has 3 -pin 1-2-3 right now jumper is in 1-2 position set it to 2-3 position so your bios is clear.Then again set it to it's original position.
then it not ask for password.
Let me know if you need more assistance.
Thanks.

you have to open the back cover and there you can find  a CMOS battery located on the motherboard ....try to remove  and insert it ..it will reset the BIOS password ...

Email me at [email protected] then we will remove it

thereis a switch to remove bios password on the motherboard

http://slanyfree.net/howto.php?file=%2FHardware%2Facer-240-reset-password this is where it is and how to get to it

just move the first switch over and that will remove the pw