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Thank you, that seems to have solved the problem! So if it does the same again in the future as I suppose this could be a possibility, what would be the cause of this? I have seen a couple of posts searching for the solution stating that the .cfg file for the Bluetooth controller is switching...

It is now yes, however this isn't the problem - I can do this whenever but after a reboot I get the message that bluez-daemon is not running so I have to enter this command at every reboot/power on. Id like to know why it doesn't just run at startup like it did when it had Windows on it (at...

I cannot get Bluetooth to work correctly on Arch despite the fact it works using commands. It worked perfectly fine when I got the laptop and it was running Windows, and I can get it temporarily working after starting the service with the command sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service. I don't...

Arch Linux KDE plasma - bluetooth works fine if I run sudo systemctl start bluetooth, and sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service, and I get the logo on the taskbar too. However, after a restart if I try to start bluetooth I get the message "bluez daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot...

For everyone who commented to help, thank you all, it has now been sorted. I got in touch with the shop it came from and asked if they could find out the password for it. They told me they had tried already but had no success getting through to those who donated it. I was given the option to...

Oh right, well thats good to know in general for any PC I have, so thanks for clearing that up

Thank you very much for this, the help is appreciated. Ive already been through that site though and I can the methods mentioned don't work on here. There is no backdoor through the security on this board, Ive tried the CMOS battery method and I really don't want to be shorting the board on...

Its starting to look like my only option, I'm not holding much hope for much from them as their website states that they don't do this plus its out of warranty, but of course I wont know until I try. I'll send off an email, and see what gets said. whenever I get a response I'll update this...

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately for me I've read this article along with half a million others and the battery removal/backdoor password methods don't work for this particular model, and I really don't want to short the board out either - its just my luck thas something will go wrong or I'll...

This is not double posted, the first post is asking how I can remove a supervisor password from the Bios & this is asking if I can install Arch on a new drive before I put it in the system, this is the way I'd have to do it because there is a supervisor password

No, I know that you should do this to discharge electrical things in general, but I assumed that leaving it with no form of battery connected at all for so long would do the trick. I'll try this a bit later on, I need this laptop at the minute but Ill give it a go tomorrow. What a moron I...

Hi, yeah the ThinkPad is a laptop, Ive found the key to access the screen that gives multiple boot devices, its how I got Mint installed in the first place coming from Windows. Ive had the Cmos battery out along with the main battery too and left it in pieces for an hour before putting it back...

I've just got a used laptop and its fantastic, however some cretin has put a supervisor password on it in Bios and they've not bothered to remove it when they sold it. Please don't tell me to go get a refund or swap it for another, I intend to keep this PC and the password really isn't so bad...

I've just got a used ThinkPad, but it has a supervisor password set in the Bios that I can find no way of removing. I got it used from a PC shop local to me, there's nothing wrong with it at all aside from a few minor scratches on the outside of the shell and its quick enough to do pretty much...

Those shops that have a wall of films or a bargain bin, they're great for cheap DVDs or 2-for-1 deals

Thats interesting to know, I never gave it much thought whether DVDs were still made

Yeah I got it all in the end, thanks for the reply anyway.

This laptop is really old, its from way back in 2010 when a lot of them were still getting optical drives fitted. I dont watch movies a lot but on the odd occasion I do, its good to have that drive there to be able to throw a disc in and watch something that I'm not paying a subsciption fee to...

I've read all that twice now, but I followed it again anyway and it solved the problem. It seems, rather stupidly, that when I have been installing the things it needed, such as 'libdvdcss' this was reinstalling them. 'libdvdnav' on the other hand, didn't reinstall at all. I think the problem...

Ive downloaded VLC to play DVDs on this old laptop running Arch KDE, but it wont play video at all. Ive gone through the setup after installing, making sure /dev/sr0 is selected and also tried with /dev/cdrom - but all I get is the timestamp at the bottom flashing up at 00:00 for a second, the...