I have an Acer Aspire V5-551. It was upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8. I tried a windows system reset because it had a lot of junk on it and I wanted to start fresh. Half way through the reset the PC said it had failed. My only option was to click "OK". It rebooted and then would not boot past the Acer logo. I let it sit for an hour or two like this. I then decided to reinstall Windows 10 fresh from USB. Same thing. I tried a DVD as well. Still frozen. I then removed the hdd and tried a different one that was brand new. Same thing. When I remove all the drives and USB drives and DVDs it says there is no bootable device. When I plug in just a USB install drive or just a Windows 10 install DVD it freezes. It seems nothing will boot at all. I tried some other boot media like a live linux disc and Hirens but nothing will boot.
Here's the kicker. I saw on some other forums that setting the BIOS to Legacy would help with this. I press F2 to get into the BIOS and it says "ENTER CURRENT PASSWORD". I never even set one on the BIOS. I never set one on the BIOS on any of my machines.
I either need to:
1. Find a way to boot something, anything at this point
2. Get a default BIOS password or get the password somehow
3. Clear the CMOS somehow (removing the battery on the motherboard for a few hours did nothing)
4. Trash it.
I don't want to go with #4 because it was JUST working. Does anyone have any tips or similar experience?
