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    Acer Aspire 5630 BIOS Virus?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by SALAH100, Sep 11, 2010.

  1. SALAH100

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    Hi,

    I got a Acer Aspire 5630 laptop and have been using it for a few years and would call myself a advance user, however recently my laptop every morning crashes and changes the BIOS password and then have to wait for a while then once I reflash the BIOS it works again.

    I tried running rootkit software along with other virus check, none dectected, this has left me confused can someone please advise?
     
    SALAH100, Sep 11, 2010
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  2. shakennstirred

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    why do you need the bios passworded
    i never see the need to set that

    maybe the CMOS battery is failing
     
    shakennstirred, Sep 11, 2010
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  3. SALAH100

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    No i dont have a password, once the laptop crashes it automatically puts a password on (confused) thought it could be the battery?
     
    SALAH100, Sep 11, 2010
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  4. michael_recycled

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    I second that.

    Yes, the coin cell somewhere on the motherboard. Unfortunately, this battery isn't easy to replace :eek:

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Sep 11, 2010
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  5. SALAH100

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    why would the password get activated then?
     
    SALAH100, Sep 12, 2010
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    ..i think it might be a virus as i never had a password on my bios and now when ever it crashes the bios gets password protected..
     
    SALAH100, Sep 12, 2010
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  7. michael_recycled

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    ANYTHING can happen if there is not enough power.
    But admitted, this password stuff should not happen at all :eek:

    This would be a very special virus made to attack the few acer laptops to render them useless :rolleyes:
    But why do you allow malware to be executed on your computer?

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Sep 12, 2010
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    i have had this problem before... i sent it to acer and everything fixed...
     
    Andrew08, Sep 12, 2010
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    ..i dont n didnt.. this has really left me confused.. am out of warranty as well so dont really know what to do.. could this be a virus?
     
    SALAH100, Sep 13, 2010
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  10. michael_recycled

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    extremely unlikely.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Sep 14, 2010
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    Were you able to fix the issue? My aspire 5630 is acting very strange also. The laptop would all of a sudden start typing garbage. When i run a virus checker it found some virus that I deleted. Then I formatted the OS partition and reinstalled it. That didn't seem to fix the ghost typing in Windows and the beeping sound coming up when I turn on the computer.
     
    gigadigit, May 28, 2011
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