I just reset the BIOS password for an Acer Aspire 3620 by shorting the jumper switch on the motherboard. It was such a pain in the butt to find the stupid switch in the first place. Then it was hard to figure out how to short the thing, but this is how to do it: 1. Follow guides on the internet to remove the keyboard. Once you do that, you have access to the jumper switch. It is labeled "sw1", but you may have a hard time reading the label, since it may be hidden and is very small. It is not a component attached to the circuit board, you just see 8 lead bulbs sticking out, similar to this: 4 3 2 1 . . . . . . . . 5 6 7 8 You can find it by locating the keyboard connector on the motherboard. It will be directly to the left of it. Turn your laptop off. Take a paperclip and attach one end of it to pin 1 and the other end to pin 8. Keep the two pins attached via the paperclip and start up your laptop. This should take care of the problem. If not, then try the same procedure, just with different variations of connecting the corner pins (i.e. 4-5, 4-8, 1-5, 1-8 according to the diagram above). Seriously, this was a major pain and Acer Support was worthless garbage. I kept pushing them for help and they kept regurgitating the same answers. It is really pathetic. Please use this and don't pay them $100. Good luck!
