Hi there,
Quote:
Originally Posted by jkohler2
Upon my normal boot up I usually receive a challenge
for my user password. When I type in the password, all
lower case, 99% of the time, I log in successfully.
What about the one percent? I have an Acer Aspire 5750-6421 laptop
and the standard BIOS. What I usually do is to unplug the power adapter
and remove the battery. After 10 seconds, reconnect, and boot from a cold start. Luckily (!) I am successful.
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this doesn't make sense to me. Which is not that I don't believe you; I do, of course. But I can't think of a really convincing explanation.
There's one straw, however: There might occasionally be an initialisation problem with the keyboard. That often happens with USB keyboards, but I've never seen that happen with laptops' built-in keyboards.
Anyway, imagine that the keyboard driver might falsely assume one of the modifier keys pressed (left or right Shift, left or right Ctrl, Alt). That could be remedied by pressing and releasing each of these keys once just on suspicion. Could also be Caps-Lock, but then you should see the correspondig indicator LED.
That's all I can offer right here.
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